Good Men in Dark Ages

At the turn of the 18th century, when two members of the Royal Spanish Academy, librarian don Hermógenes Molina and admiral don Pedro Zárate, were assigned by their coworkers to travel to Paris in order to obtain in a secretive manner all 28 volumes of the Encyclopaedia of D'Alembert and Diderot, which was outlawed in Spain, nobody could foresee that these two academics would face an extremely dangerous sequence of machinations, a journey full of uncertainty and fright, which would lead them, through paths full of robbers and uncomfortable lodgings and inns, from Charles III's enlightend Madrid to Parisian cafés, salons, philosophical circles of conversation, libertine life and political unrest of the French Revolution. Based on real events and characters, documented with great rigour, emotional and captivating at every page, "Good Men in Dark Ages" tells the heroic tale of people who, with Logic's light as their guide, wanted to change the world through books, back in an age when the future was pushing old ideas to the side and the stress for freedom made established thrones and worlds to falter.