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Captain Alatriste

By Arturo Perez-Reverte

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| Paperback | 9780753820872

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Perez-Reverte wrote the Captain Alatriste seies as a homage to the adventure books that had been his own initiation into the world of reading as a boy - books such as Dumas's The Three Musketeers. Captain Alatriste is a swordsman for hire in Spain in the 1620s - a time when Court intrigue is high aContinue

Perez-Reverte wrote the Captain Alatriste seies as a homage to the adventure books that had been his own initiation into the world of reading as a boy - books such as Dumas's The Three Musketeers. Captain Alatriste is a swordsman for hire in Spain in the 1620s - a time when Court intrigue is high and the decadent young king has dragged the country into a series of disastrous wars. As a hired 'blade', Alatriste becomes involved in many political plots and must live by his wits. He comes face to face with hired assassins, court players, political moles, smugglers, pirates and of course, the infamous Spanish Inquisition... All the stories are told by Inigo Balboa, Alatriste's young page. The cast of characters also includes Quevedo, an irrepressible subversive poet who likes to start fights in the local tavern, the kind-hearted innkeeper and ex-prostitute who shares Alatriste's bed, the elegant Count of Guadalmedina, the beautiful but deadly Angelica de Alquezar, and a whole host of underworld figures.

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  • Daggers drawn

    Captain Alatriste by Arturo Pérez-Reverte 253pp, Weidenfeld, £9.99 Historical adventure novels are moral utopias: dreams of simpler times, when ethical questions were more transparent, and when the proper response to an insult was not to seethe in yo ... (read full critics)

    guardian.co.uk published on Sat, 25 Sep 2010

  • Book review: Arturo Perez-Reverte's *Purity of Blood: The Adventures of Captain Alatriste*

    Purity of Blood: The Adventures of Captain Alatriste Arturo Perez-Reverte Plume Paperback 288 pages November 2006 Captain Alatriste is supposed to be a throwback to the days of the swashbuckling movies of Errol Flynn, but unfortunately he buckles und ... (read full critics)

    curledup published on Tue, 7 Sep 2010

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