Books published by publisher Methuen and Co Ltd

"Thomas de Torquemada was Prior of Segovia in the year 1483, and as such, the head of the local inquisition. It was a grievous responsibility. It hurt him when people cast down their eyes as he passed, just as he truly suffered each time he sent a heretic to the stake in order to cleanse and purify his immortal soul. Thomas was a man without friends; save for the three members of one family; Alvero de Rafel, one of the noblest Knights of Spain, his gracious wife Maria, and his beautifl daughter Catherine. This is the starting point for Howard Fast's forceful and grim tale of the fifteenth century: the insights it offers into the terrible truth at the core of the Inquisition has chilling overtones for the twentieth."