After conquering all of Earth, the Empire of the M憖ica, descendants of the ancient Aztec, set their sights on outer space and send xenoarchaeologist Gretchen Anderssen to the planet Jagan to
find a possible artifact of the Old Ones, but Gretchen and her team find themselves in the middle of a war fomented by the Priests of the Empire, in the sequel to Wasteland of Flint. Reprint.