View a FREE sample

Chapter 1

• On the day of the festivals of the bullfights in the Plaza Mayor, a crowd of church finds a dead woman tied to to a sedan chair. In her hand, she holds a note that says For masses for Your Soul.

• Chief Constable Martin Sladana is called into investigate. Barring the fact she is wearing a golden chain of Saint Agueda, he finds nothing remarkable about her.
• Saldana arrives at the bullfights where he meets his friend Diego Alatriste. With him is Inigo Balboa y Aguirre, the son of one of Alatriste old war compatriots. He serves as Alatriste's squire.

• Alatriste tells Sladana that he is planning to return to the Netherlands to fight.
• Alatrise and Inigo meet up with Alatriste's good friend the poet and swordsman Francisco de Quevedo. *Quevedo tells him that he has some employment and though dangerous, he promises it will be well-paid...

(read more Chapter Abstracts)

This section contains 1,407 words (approx. 5 pages at 300 words per page) View a FREE sample