num_pages: 382
description: As a boy he had been known as "El Rubio," a ragamuffin pimp who made his few pesos leading sailors to his home, a waterfront bordello...As a young man he was called Mario - handsome and experienced beyond his years in the debauchery and treachery of slave-trading Havana...And then, suddenly, he was the Count of San Mateo - heir to a Spanish fortune - and bound for Spain to play the role of human stallion to a desperate, degenerate Queen...The Tattooed Rood, a great new novel of a man branded with the terrible torture-mark of the Spanish Inquisition.
language: English
title: The Tattooed Rood
titlecomplete: The Tattooed Rood
genres: Fiction, Historical Fiction
ratings_count: 118
publisher: Fawcett Publications