by Jesús Sánchez Adalid · Harper Bolsillo · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788417216474
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In the year 1568, Emperor Philip II faces conflicts in Flanders and the Alpujarras, as well as Berber piracy and the Ottoman resurgence. To counter these threats, he relies on a spy network, but double agents are common. Luis María Monroy de Villalobos, an experienced warrior and spy recently admitted to the military order of the Knights of Alcántara, receives a secret mission from Philip II himself: to travel to Istanbul posing as a cloth merchant. The novel reflects the life of the knight Monroy in an era of splendor of the Hispanic empire, where chivalrous and religious ideals coexist with the cruelty of wars and the iniquity of rulers.
