by Arturo Pérez-Reverte · PUNTO DE LECTURA · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788466320016
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«El capitán Alatriste» is the historical adventure novel by Arturo Pérez-Reverte, published by Punto de Lectura in paperback (280 pages, in Spanish).
In seventeenth-century Madrid, Diego Alatriste, a veteran of the Flanders tercios, scrapes a living as a hired swordsman. Court intrigues, ambushes, taverns where Quevedo writes verses and Lope de Vega's playhouses punctuate his adventures, with Íñigo Balboa, the inquisitor Bocanegra and the assassin Malatesta among the characters.
First instalment of the series «Las aventuras del capitán Alatriste»; this edition is from 2011, in the BIGBOOKS collection.
For readers of historical and swashbuckling fiction, especially those drawn to the Spanish Golden Age.
Spanish journalist, former war reporter and novelist, author of the Captain Alatriste saga and novels such as The Flanders Panel and The Club Dumas.
