The Shadow of the Guillotine, or Good People

In the novel, the literary father of the famous Captain Alatriste immerses us in the turbulent pre-revolutionary times of French history at the end of the 18th century. The old world is collapsing, France's prisons are overcrowded, books are being... burned, and terror is on the rise. Against this anxious backdrop, Don Ermochenes Molina, an academic and translator of Virgil, along with his companion, retired commander of a marine infantry brigade Don Pedro Sarate, is sent to Paris on a mission from the Spanish Royal Academy to find the first edition of the disgraced Encyclopedia of Diderot and d'Alembert, which the Holy Inquisition has included in its "Index of Forbidden Books". The expedition of the two Spaniards could turn into their demise at any moment, as they are not the only ones hunting for this literary rarity...