Gary Jennings Books in Order

Mixtli, called Dark Cloud, recounts his life and the life of his people to a Spanish bishop. Through his rise across the Aztec world, the novel brings Tenochtitlan and the coming conquest vividly to life.

Gary Jennings imagines the half of Marco Polo's life that the famous traveler never told. From Venice to the court of Kublai Khan, Marco crosses the Silk Road in a vast adventure full of danger, curiosity, and hard-earned knowledge.

Just after Appomattox, former Confederate officer Zachary Edge joins a traveling circus and leaves the wreckage of the South behind. The novel follows the troupe across America and Europe in a huge mix of spectacle, romance, grit, and history.

This comic novel follows the wildly misguided missionary Crispin Mobey through one disastrous assignment after another. Told through his letters, it turns earnest zeal and cultural chaos into a string of increasingly absurd adventures.

In the dying Roman world, Thorn, a sharp-witted Goth born with a dangerous secret, is driven into exile and forced to survive by cunning. His long journey eventually brings him into the orbit of Theodoric and a collapsing empire.

After the fall of the Aztec empire, Tenamaxtli refuses to bow to the Spaniards. His rebellion drives a fierce historical adventure about resistance, lost power, and the long fight over Mexico's future.

Zachary Edge and the circus cross the Atlantic into a Europe being remade. From Italy to Austria, Hungary, and Russia, the troupe chases glory through court intrigue, danger, and the messy complications of life on the road.

The circus pushes farther across Europe, from Hungary to the Russian court and toward a Paris shadowed by war. Zachary Edge must navigate glamour, upheaval, and private strain as the troupe chases success on unstable ground.

At the end of the Civil War, Zachary Edge wanders into a traveling circus and never really looks back. As the troupe crosses the defeated South, he is pulled into a rough new life of performers, desire, and constant motion.

Cristo the Bastard, a streetwise youth of both Spanish and Aztec blood, grows up in a cruel colonial world where lineage means everything. From Veracruz to Seville, he schemes and fights to uncover his birthright.

Set in 1541, this novel follows an Aztec caught in a desperate uprising against Spanish rule. Ambushes, slavery, and raw survival drive a story about rebellion, memory, and the brutal price of refusing to submit.

Orphaned in the upheaval of 1810, young Juan Martez is spared the gallows and forced to make gunpowder for the Spanish. In secret he arms the underground, falls for a fierce revolutionary, and is drawn into Mexico's fight for independence.

In ancient Tula, a gifted slave named Coyotl rises beside Quetzalcoatl as war, drought, and fanatic priests threaten the city. A thousand years later, modern scientists uncover the same end-time codex and fear history may be repeating itself.

In the canyonlands of Mexico, Rita Critchlow and Cooper Jones hunt an ancient codex said to predict catastrophe. Their search mirrors a parallel story set centuries earlier, as a young slave-scholar races to save the Aztec world from collapse.

Juan is a mestizo with a rare gift for horses and a knack for survival. After a killing pushes him into life as a highwayman and impostor, he must fight his way toward the truth of his own bloodline.