Alec Devlin: The Empire of the Skull
1924. Mexico.
16-year-old Alec Devlin has left his beloved Egypt to join his Father in Veracruz. His friend, American adventurer, Ethan Wade is due to join them in his new role as Alec’s bodyguard. But bored by sitting around at his Father’s hacienda, he and his faithful valet Coates embark on a trip to visit an ancient archaeological site... where he quickly discovers that this new world is every bit as perilous as The Valley of the Kings.
Pursued by ruthless bandits, intent on taking him hostage, he is forced to take refuge on an aeroplane with a motley collection of fellow travellers. When an unforeseen event forces the plane down in the midst of a remote tropical rain forest, even more dangers await him and his companions in the shape of the lost Aztec city of Colotlan, which has lain undiscovered and unchanged for over 500 years.
Here, a society of Aztec warriors, still enact the brutal rituals of human sacrifice – and it soon becomes clear that Alec and his companions have been earmarked for slaughter by scheming high priest, Itzli. As time ticks away, Alec and his friends must use all of their ingenuity to evade his deadly obsidian knife – and when Itzli summons the forces of darkness, in the shape of the terrifying Children Of Mictlan,...
it becomes an adventure where only the strongest will survive.