The Purity Of Blood

A Woman Has Been Found Strangled In A Sedan Chair In Front Of A Church . In Her Hand Is A Pouch Containing Fifty Escudos And A Handwritten - But Unsigned - Not Bearing The Words' 'For Masses For Her Soul '. Chief Constable Martin Saldaña Confides In His Old Friend An Comrade-In-arms, Diego Alatriste. Still In Danger From The Powerful Enemies He Made In His First Adventure, Captain Alatriste Is Now Considering A Return To Flanders Where War Just Resumed. But First, His Old Friend , The Poet Quevedo, Asks Him For A Favour. The Daughter Of One Of His Acquaintances Must Be Rescued From A Convent , Where Two Powerful Priests Are Seducing The Young Women In Their Charge. It Is A Dangerous Mission, But For A Man Who Lives By His Sword, There Is No Choice But To Fight...