Purity of blood
By: by Arturo Pérez-Reverte
Edition: Large print ed.
Publisher: WF Howes
Published: 2007
Place of publication: Rearsby
Language: eng
Number of pages: 248
ISBN-13: 9781407406923
Subjects: Diego Alatriste (Fictitious character); Fiction; Swordsmen; Large type books; History
Description: A desperate father hires Alatriste to rescue his daughter from a convent where a powerful priest is said to be using the girl as his personal concubine. The father has been prevented from legal recourse because the priest has threatened to reveal that the man's family is "not of pure blood"--Is, in fact, of Jewish descent - which will all but destroy the family name. Alatriste agrees to help, and several nights later, under the cloak of darkness, a rescue attempt is made. But soon Alatriste discovers that he has become part of a religious and political conspiracy that leads all the way to the highest levels of the Inquisition. When a date is set to burn the man's daughter at the stake, Captain Alatriste springs into action.
Notes: Originally published: London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 2006.

Translated from the Spanish.