Chased on the Inca Trail from Machu Picchu to Km 88 with a fortune in their backpack, the unprepared Dusty and Jacie suffer the capricious weather conditions for days and nights trekking above the clouds while being pursued by two thugs from the Cartagena Cartel.

After being ambushed and abducted on their return to Cusco, they are flown to Colombia to be questioned by the Cartagena Cartel's leading members, where their future fate is planned by the sadistic Jaime Nava. Seeing how Jacie rapidly deteriorates in Nava's hands with the intent of forcing Dusty to bend to his will and kill a former associate, Dusty desperately searches for a way out of their captivity.

This, the third and last installment in the illustrated thriller trilogy The Circles of Gold, is set to the historic background of the Inca chieftains fratricidal war, Francisco Pizarro's daring conquest of the Inca empire and the mounting search for the elusive Eldorado kingdom where the streets were rumored to be paved with gold.

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Excerpt: Conquerors & Captives