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In such a gripping historical thriller set in 16th-century Spain, a Catholic priest is murdered by a strange Muslim avenger as the Inquisition is constantly on the force Moriscos to reside in and worship as Christians. In March 1584, the priest of Belamar de la Sierra, a little town in Aragon near the French boundary, is murdered in his own chapel. A lot of the town's inhabitants are Moriscos, former Muslims who converted to Catholicism. Troubled to avert a violent backlash on the eve of any royal visit, an adviser to Ruler Philip II appoints local magistrate Bernardo de Mendoza to research. A soldier and humanist, Mendoza doesn't always live up to the moral benchmarks expected of court officers, but he has a reputation for incorruptibility. From the beginning Mendoza sees almost general hatred for the priest. And it isn't long before he's attracted into a complex and dangerous world in which greed, fanaticism, and talk about policy overlap. So when the killings continue, Mendoza's analysis is overshadowed by the real prospect of your ethnic and spiritual civil war. By turns an relating historical thriller and a novel with parallels to our own time, The Devils of Cardona is an unexpected and powerful listen.
