At that moment, a softly whistled musical roulade sounded behind me - tiruri-ta-ta - I went cold, and my fingers, stained with the blood of Don Luis, squeezed the hilt of his dagger tighter. He slowly turned around, simultaneously raising his blade, which flashed in the moonlight. On the parapet I saw a well-known silhouette in a raincoat and wide-brimmed hat. I saw and understood - they had set a deadly trap for us, and now I was caught in it. “Here we meet again,” he said. Captain Diego Alatriste raids a Benedictine monastery, Inigo Balboa falls into the clutches of the Holy Inquisition, and his fatal love Angelica de Alquezar commits her first betrayal of passion. The auto-da-fé fires are already burning...The second volume of Arturo Perez-Reverte’s historical and adventurous epic about Captain Alatriste “Pure Blood” is for the first time in Russian.