by Arturo Pérez-Reverte · Punto de Lectura · tapa blanda · ISBN 9789707311442
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«El capitán Alatriste» is the historical novel by Arturo Pérez-Reverte, published by Punto de Lectura in paperback (217 pages, in Spanish).
Diego Alatriste, a veteran of the Flanders tercios, scrapes by as a hired swordsman in seventeenth-century Madrid. When the Inquisition commissions him to kill two mysterious travellers, he becomes trapped in a conspiracy that puts his life and honour at stake, with characters such as Íñigo Balboa and Quevedo.
It is the first instalment in the series Las aventuras del capitán Alatriste, originally published in 1996.
For readers of historical and adventure novels who enjoy sword duels, courtly intrigues and seventeenth-century Madrid.
