The acclaimed author of "Are We Rome?" brings his highly praised blend of deep research, colorful travelogue, and insightful political analysis to a new history of the Inquisition. Exploring the Inquisition from its establishment in 1231 onwards, Murphy argues that not only did its offices survive into the twentieth century, its spirit lingers on in the modern world too.

On a mission of revenge, and in the guise of English businessman Sebastian Foxx, exiled Sebastião Raposa returns to Lisbon, stalking the ruthless Inquisitor priest Pedro Azinheiro who imprisoned his parents ten years earlier. When a twist of fate turns his carefully laid plans to chaos, he will be forced to choose between surrendering to bloodlust or serving the cause of mercy.

During the Spanish Inquisition, sixteen-year-old Estrella, brought up a Catholic, discovers her family's true Jewish identity, and when their secret is betrayed by Estrella's best friend, the consequences are tragic.

During the time of the inquisition in 16th century Eupore two childhood friends find themselves taking opposite paths in life as one becomes an executioner and the other a mercenary. The two friends soon become deadly enemies.

When Miguel de Roxas, a young nobleman studying medicine in Padua, is summoned home to Spain to claim his inheritance, he is plunged into the tumultuous events resulting from the treachery of the Inquisition.

Schedoni, a sinister monk, contrives to prevent the marriage of Vincentio di Vivaldi to Ellena Rosalba, at the request of Vincentio's mother.

The story of Don Quixote, a chivalrous knight who chooses to see life as it should be, not as it is.