King's Curse

Civilizations fell when Cortez and his conquistadores landed in the New World. The Mayans, the Aztecs and the Toltec all vanished into the mists of history. But one tribe survived: the Actatl. And what survived with them was their huge stone idol, Uctut – the sacred rock which demanded blood as a sacrifice . . . human blood.

When the stone is despoiled in a New York museum by a young graffiti frea...