Description

In the acclaimed and best-selling author comes the sixth journey of Captain Alatriste, "the brooding, charismatic hero of his extremely profitable Spanish swashbuckling books" (The Brand New York Times). Within the world of seventeenth-century Madrid, using its classy sparkling palaces and theaters, Captain Alatriste and his protégé, Íñigo, are fish out-of water. However the judge and master are maintaining Alatriste on retainer-he's proven helpful previously. Like Alatriste decides to stay, even while his "work" provides him uncomfortably near to previous opponents, a veteran without any additional income source.