“...There was a crash and flash very close by - knowing that his people only had edged weapons, Alatriste rushed to where they were shooting from, cutting blindly. Someone grabbed him by the arms, he knocked the attacker down and fell with him onto the flooded bleeding deck, hit the enemy with his head once and twice, felt that the hand holding the dagger was free, and stuck it between himself and the Fleming. He screamed, feeling the cutting touch, rushed away on all fours Alatriste rolled to the side, and immediately a heavy weight fell on him someone's body, lamentations were heard in Spanish, “Most Pure Virgin, Jesus Mary.” He didn’t know who it was, and there was no time to find out. He got out from under him, jumped to his feet, with a sword in one hand, a dagger in the other, looked around and saw that the darkness was thinning and was highlighted in pink. There was a terrifying scream all around, and it was impossible to take a step without slipping on the blood.” The fourth book of the multi-volume epic of the famous Spanish writer Arturo Perez-Reverte “Captain Alatriste”, in which our hero captures a galleon with colonial gold, his young friend Inigo Balboa is lured into a deadly trap by the kiss of the fatal beauty Angelica de Alcazar, and Gualterio Malatesta barely recovers from the crushing blow.