This is Paris. The streets are filled with intrigue, duels, spies and adventure. The skies are filled with dragons. And Cardinal Richelieu’s men, the Cardinal’s Blades, may be prevailed upon to risk life and limb at a moment’s notice. With war on the horizon, their lives may be in more danger than they think. An ancient, terrible threat is rising in Spain. A plot to cast a huge dragon-shaped shadow across Europe is being formed and, to counter it, there is only one person Cardinal Richelieu can turn to: Captain La Fargue, and the Cardinal’s Blades. Only they can turn the tide – only they have a chance to defeat the deadly Black Claw cult and their plans, even if they have to find traitors to the crown, intercept spies and rescue prisoners to do it. It’s death or victory. And victory has never been less certain…