Rights sold to: Planeta - Spanish languageSpain during the “re-conquest” is a land ravaged by long years of war and is in the clutches of the Inquisition. This is the reality, the background for the great event of the discovery of America which the book is centred on. Historical documentation is embellished by the novelist’s passion and invention. I Will Killl Christopher Columbus in fact is the story of a long-sought vendetta against Christopher Colombus by Juan Rodriguez Bermejo, the sailor who first sighted the island of San Salvador on 12 October, 1492, and who yelled “Land ho!”. But the avid and unscrupulous Admiral stole the scene from him affirming he first saw the coast and, what counts more, Columbus subtracted the reward of 10,000 gold pieces promised by the Crown. With that money, Juan Rodriguez Bermejo could have led a peaceful life. That is why he wants to kill Columbus, no matter if he must become a soldier, a deserter, thief, brothel keeper or Moslem to do it. Will he succeed? Though invention prevails over history, the exciting adventures of these two exceptional antagonists engagingly take the reader through a little known era.