In 1866 Spain, Don Jaime is an old-fashioned fencing master, unaware of the political conspiracies around him. A mysterious and beautiful woman enters his life, asking to be instructed in this old gentlemen's art. Once he accepts, he is thrown into an entangled plot of intrigue and death. "And after the final, most horrific revelations, there is a dramatic surprise of an ending... All in all, The Fencing Master is a splendid performance."- Walter Satterhwait, The New York Book Review