The Adventures Of Captain Alatriste

Madrid of 1623. Spain's King Philip IV and his prime minister, the Count Duke of Olivares, rule over half the world. But perennial warfare has drained the finances, transforming the streets of Madrid into a constant struggle for survival.

Grand Inquisitor Bocanegra and his allies, are eliminating all witness of the failed assassination attempt on Prince Charles, but Alatriste manages to escape to a church as sanctuary. Not one to be easily outsmarted, Bocanegra has Maria's sister incarcerated for blasphemy, knowing that she is Alatriste's soft spot, and he will do anything to help his lover.

After a bond of sorts is established between Alatriste and Prince Charles, Guadalmedina assigns him his next job: bodyguard to Charles wherever he may choose to roam. When the destination of his choice is, of all places, the Infanta's convent, the master swordsman's next predicament is just around the corner.

After selflessly enabling Prince Charles' escape from the convent, Alatriste is locked away. And while it looks like Maria is ready to do some covert work for Bocanegra to save her sister Ines' life, another spy heads for Spain with instructions from Cardinal Richelieu to prevent the Spanish Match at all cost: Madame de Brissac.

Alatriste finds himself between one woman from his past, Maria, and one from his present, Caridad. But final verdicts of the heart are postponed when two recently orphaned children of an old friend and comrade of Diego seek his help in retrieving a mysterious statuette of Saint George, their father's only inheritance, whose value seems not to lie in the holy but in what it holds.

Madame de Brissac looks to make Padre Ferrán her ally in driving a wedge between the English prince and the infanta. With Alatriste's help, Elvira Barragas takes revenge on the assassins who killed her brother and uncle and Inigo finds out what it means to kill with one's own hands.