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Brother Cadfael must intervene when a prisoner exchange is interrupted by love and murder In February of 1141, men march home from war to Shrewsbury, but the captured sheriff Gilbert Prestcote is not among them. Elis, a young Welsh prisoner, is delivered to the Abbey of Saint Peter and Saint Paul to begin a tale that will test Brother Cadfael's sense of justice-and his heart. By good fortune, it seems, the prisoner can be exchanged as Sheriff Prestcote's ransom. What no one expects is that good-natured Elis will be struck down by cupid's arrow. The sheriff's own daughter holds him in thrall, and she, too, is blind with passion. But regaining her father means losing her lover. The sheriff, ailing and frail, is brought to the abbey's infirmary-where he is murdered. Suspicion falls on the prisoner, who has only his Welsh honor to gain Brother Cadfael's help. And Cadfael gives it, not knowing the truth will be a trial for his own soul.… (más)
Febrero del año 1141. Continúa la guerra civil. En la batalla de Lincoln, es hecho prisionero, junto al rey Esteban, el gobernador de Shropshire, jefe directo de Hugo Berengario. Se decide un intercambio: el gobernador por un señor galés, capturado durante un ataque a un convento de monjas. Pero, antes del intercambio, uno de los dos prisioneros muere. Fray Cadfael no tarda en entrar en sospechas de que no se trata de una muerte del todo natural. Por supuesto, sobre él recae la obligación de demostrarlo y encontrar al asesino.
Continúa la guerra civil. En la batalla de Lincoln es hecho prisionero, junto al rey Esteban, el gobernador de Shropshire, jefe directo de Hugo Berengario. Se decide un intercambio: el gobernador por un señor galés, capturado durante un ataque a un convento de monjas. Pero, antes del intercambio, uno de los dos prisioneros muere, fray Cadfael no tarda en entrar en sospechas de que no se trata de una muerte del todo natural. Por supuesto, sobre él recae la obligación de demostrarlo y encontrar al asesino.
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On that day, which was the seventh of February of the year of Our Lord 1141, they had offered special prayers at every office, not for the victory of one party or the defeat of another in the battlefields of the north, but for better counsel, for reconciliation, for the sparing of blood-letting and the respect of life between men of the same country - all desirable consummations, as Brother Cadfael sighed to himself even as he prayed, but very unlikely to be answered in this torn and fragmented land with any but a very dusty answer.
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'I hope we have made, between us all, the best of a great ill, and who said that our purpose is justice, and with God lies her privilege of mercy. But even God, when he intends mercy, needs tools to his hand.'
Brother Cadfael must intervene when a prisoner exchange is interrupted by love and murder In February of 1141, men march home from war to Shrewsbury, but the captured sheriff Gilbert Prestcote is not among them. Elis, a young Welsh prisoner, is delivered to the Abbey of Saint Peter and Saint Paul to begin a tale that will test Brother Cadfael's sense of justice-and his heart. By good fortune, it seems, the prisoner can be exchanged as Sheriff Prestcote's ransom. What no one expects is that good-natured Elis will be struck down by cupid's arrow. The sheriff's own daughter holds him in thrall, and she, too, is blind with passion. But regaining her father means losing her lover. The sheriff, ailing and frail, is brought to the abbey's infirmary-where he is murdered. Suspicion falls on the prisoner, who has only his Welsh honor to gain Brother Cadfael's help. And Cadfael gives it, not knowing the truth will be a trial for his own soul.
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