The Eagle's Throne

PRAISE FOR THE EAGLE’S THRONE

“A literary marriage of two great books from the past, that of Machiavelli’s The Prince and the eighteenth-century French epistolary novel, Les Liaisons Dangereuses . . a full-blown triumph. . Fuentes has never written better.” —San Francisco Chronicle

“Compelling. . Fuentes injects the book with uproariously lethal intrigue. . [The] reader [is] privy to secret schemes and passions. . What makes this satire astute is how Fuentes forces his politicians to face the consequences of their actions.” —The Denver Post

“Dazzling, razor-sharp. . provides a feast of political insight, aphorisms and maxims, in the spirit of Machiavelli and Sun Tzu’s The Art of War.” —The Washington Post Book World

“A nerve-grating cautionary tale, and one of [Fuentes’s] best books.” —Kirkus Reviews (starred review)

“Daring and original. . dark, well thought-out. . The plot is intricate with many unexpected twists. . A critical, caustic, analytical, judicious call to arms. . provocative.” —San Antonio Express-News

“[The] characters spring to life as true individuals, fully developed in Fuentes’s beguilingly unorthodox fashion. A novel that is truly a tour de force.” —Booklist (starred review)

“A political thriller. . to end all political thrillers. The futuristic tale [is] an old-fashioned epistolary novel in which the characters conspire, deceive, seduce, plea and attack one another entirely through letters. The device is perfect for intrigue. . The Eagle’s Throne is an exhilarating romp through the cruelty of Mexican politics, but it is also a cautionary tale about the price of ambition.” —The Columbus Dispatch