Conquest: Cortes, Montezuma, and the Fall of Old Mexico by Hugh Thomas

Since reading Carnage and Culture by Victor Davis Hanson, I've been looking forward to reading more about Hernan Cortes. Ruthless, ambitious, pious, charismatic, brave, perceptive and clever, Cortes is an altogether fascinating man. Hugh Thomas's account of the conquest of Tenochtitlan does him justice.