Тень гильотины, или Добрые люди

V romane literaturnyy otets znamenitogo kapitana Alatriste pogruzhaet nas v smutnye predrevolyutsionnye vremena frantsuzskoy istorii kontsa XVIII veka. Staryy mir rushitsya, tyurmy Frantsii perepolneny, zhgut knigi, usilivaetsya terror. I na etom trevozhnom fone don Ermokhenes Molina, akademik, perevodchik Vergiliya, i tovarishch ego, otstavnoy komandir brigady morskikh pekhotintsev don Pedro Sarate, po zadaniyu Ispanskoy Korolevskoy akademii otpravlyayutsya v Parizh v poiskakh pervogo izdaniya opalnoy Entsiklopedii Didro i DAlambera, kotoruyu Svyataya inkvizitsiya vklyuchila v svoy Indeks zapreshchennykh knig. Ekspeditsiya dvukh ispantsev v lyuboy moment mozhet obernutsya ikh gibelyu, potomu chto za knizhnoy redkostyu okhotyatsya ne oni odni...