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1584. Le prêtre de Belamar de la Sierra, un petit village d'Aragon à la frontière avec la France, est assassiné, son église profanée. Sur les murs : des inscriptions en arabe. Est-ce l'œuvre de celui qui se fait appeler le Rédempteur, dont tout le monde ignore l'identité, et qui a promis l'extermination de tous les chrétiens, avec la même violence que celle exercée sur les musulmans ? La plupart des habitants de la région sont en effet des morisques, convertis de force au catholicisme, et qui pratiquent encore l'islam en secret.

In March 1584 the priest of Belamar de la Sierra, a small town in Aragon near the French border, is murdered in his own church. Most of the town's inhabitants are Moriscos, former Muslims who converted to Catholicism. Anxious to avert a violent backlash on the eve of a royal visit, an adviser to King Philip II appoints local magistrate Bernardo de Mendoza to investigate. A soldier and humanist, Mendoza doesn't always live up to the moral standards expected of court officials.

Did you know that your true corporate culture is hidden in the thinking and mindsets that drive all interpersonal interactions at work? Your corporate culture ultimately determines your performance levels, your ability to attract and retain talent, to collaborate, and to strategically transform as your market conditions change.

Barcelona, summer 1909. When the scientist and explorer Randolph Foulkes is blown up in a random terrorist bomb attack, Private Detective Harry Lawton is hired by the man's widow to identify the beneficiary of a large payment Foulkes had made shortly before his death.