This Audie Award winning audio edition tells the story of Don Jaime de Astarola, Spain's greatest fencing master...a man of honor, an anachronism...and the perfector of the deadly unstoppable thrust technique. He lives an ordered and celibate life dedicated to one passion, the art of fencing...until the beautiful and mysterious Adela de Otero destablizes his tranquil existence, and he finds himself involved in a plot of seduction, politics, secret documents and murder.