"1568 is a disastrous year for Emperor Philip II: his son Charles and his wife Isabel de Valois die, conflicts in Flanders and the Alpujarras are frequent, the Protestant and Calvinist heresies advance in Europe and the Mediterranean is ravaged by Barbary piracy and the Ottoman resurgence. To deal with this last threat, the emperor has at his disposal the largest spy network known to Christendom, although double agents abound and the Great Turk??? has his own skillful informants. Luis Mar???a Monroy de Villalobos, who has ...
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"1568 is a disastrous year for Emperor Philip II: his son Charles and his wife Isabel de Valois die, conflicts in Flanders and the Alpujarras are frequent, the Protestant and Calvinist heresies advance in Europe and the Mediterranean is ravaged by Barbary piracy and the Ottoman resurgence. To deal with this last threat, the emperor has at his disposal the largest spy network known to Christendom, although double agents abound and the Great Turk??? has his own skillful informants. Luis Mar???a Monroy de Villalobos, who has just joined the prestigious military order of the Knights of Alc??????ntara, is already an experienced warrior, traveller and spy. At court, or more precisely in Segovia, he will be commissioned by Philip II himself for a new secret mission: to travel to Istanbul again, posing as a rich cloth merchant. There are barely three years left until the Christian victory at Lepanto..."--
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