Purity of Blood: The Adventures of Captain Alatriste S. M. Gaither plots this atmospheric and disturbing

plots this atmospheric and disturbing novel in the year 2021

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Purity of Blood: The Adventures of Captain Alatriste S. M. Gaither plots this atmospheric and disturbingA woman has been found in a sedan chair in front of a church, strangled. In her hand is a pouch containing fifty escudos and a handwritten but unsigned note bearing the words 'For masses for her soul'. The chief constable Martin Saldana confides in his old friend and comrade in arms, Diego Alatriste. Still in danger from the powerful enemies he made in his first adventure, Captain Alatriste is considering returning to Flanders where the war has just