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The Captive is the first volume of the Seven Serpents Trilogy. Julian Escobar, a young Jesuit seminarian who travels to the New World, is the only human survivor when a hurricane sinks a ship laden with gold. He struggles ashore, where he meets a Mayan girl. She teaches him about Kukulcan, the Feathered Serpent, a fair-skinned Mayan god, who sailed away centuries before. When Julian blows up a Mayan idol, he meets a Spanish dwarf who survived an earlier shipwreck. Cantu, the dwarf, persuades Julian to impersonate Kukulcan. Accepted as the returned god, Julian finds himself presiding over a human sacrifice.
