Name: Captain Alatriste: A Swashbuckling Tale of Action and Adventure (The Adventures of Captain Alatriste) (in English)
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Author: Arturo Pérez-Reverte
ISBN: 9780753820872

portada Captain Alatriste: A Swashbuckling Tale of Action and Adventure (The Adventures of Captain Alatriste) (in English)

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Physical Book

Author

Arturo Pérez-Reverte

Publisher

W&N

Synopsis "Captain Alatriste: A Swashbuckling Tale of Action and Adventure (The Adventures of Captain Alatriste) (in English)"

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.

Arturo Pérez-Reverte

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(Cartagena, España, en 1951). Fue reportero de guerra durante veintiún años y cubrió dieciocho conflictos armados para los diarios y la televisión. Con más de veinte millones de lectores en el mundo, traducido a cuarenta idiomas, muchas de sus obras han sido llevadas al cine y la televisión. Hoy comparte su vida entre la literatura, el mar y la navegación. Es miembro de la Real Academia Española y de la Asociación de Escritores de Marina de Francia.

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