The adventures and misadventures of Luis María de Monroy continue, the young soldier of the Tercios whom we already met in El cautivo, in the context of the continuous clashes in the 16th century between the Spanish troops of Felipe II and those of the Ottoman Empire Captured and taken captive in the battle of Los Gelves, thanks to his intelligence, his mastery of the art of singing and playing the lute and some other stroke of luck, he will manage to safeguard his life first in Susa and then in Istanbul, the most fascinating and cosmopolitan of the time, where he will doubly risk his life by collaborating with an espionage plot in the service of the Spanish emperor. The exciting life of the knight Monroy, protagonist of the successful trilogy of The Knight of Alcántara, is the faithful reflection of a time as fascinating as it is complex, that of the splendor of the Hispanic empire of the Habsburgs, the same as that of Lope and Cervantes. The protagonist of the novel will soon discov