by Pedro Casals Aldama · Editorial Planeta · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788432068218
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«Las hogueras del rey» is the historical novel by Pedro Casals Aldama, published in 1989 by Editorial Planeta in paperback (256 pages, in Spanish).
Cristóbal Aveiro, a Portuguese spy in the service of the English, is tasked with assassinating Philip II. His mission offers a view of Inquisition-era Spain and the complex personality of the monarch, in a plot featuring the Princess of Éboli, Antonio Pérez and the Duke of Alba, with the war in the Netherlands and relations with England as a backdrop.
It was a finalist for the Premio Planeta in 1989. It is part of the Colección Autores españoles e hispanoamericanos; its first edition consisted of 58,000 copies.
For readers of historical fiction and court intrigues interested in the reign of Philip II, the Inquisition and 16th-century Spain.
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