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Pérez-Reverte, Arturo.
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Soldiers -- Spain -- Fiction.
Swordsmen -- Fiction.
Thirty Years' War, 1618-1648 -- Fiction.
Madrid (Spain) -- Fiction.
Spain -- History -- 17th century -- Fiction.
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Pérez-Reverte, Arturo.
Soldiers -- Spain -- Fiction.
Swordsmen -- Fiction.
Thirty Years' War, 1618-1648 -- Fiction.
Madrid (Spain) -- Fiction.
Spain -- History -- 17th century -- Fiction.
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Captain
Alatriste
/ Arturo Pérez-Reverte ; translated from the Spanish by Margaret Sayers Peden.
by
Pérez-Reverte, Arturo.
G.P. Putnam's Sons, 2005.
Call #:
FICTION PER
Subjects
Soldiers -- Spain -- Fiction.
Swordsmen -- Fiction.
Thirty Years' War, 1618-1648 -- Fiction.
Madrid (Spain) -- Fiction.
Spain -- History -- 17th century -- Fiction.
Series
Pérez-Reverte, Arturo. Aventuras del capitán
Alatriste
. English.
ISBN:
9780452287112 (2006 Plume pbk.)
9780399152757 (alk. paper)
039915275X (alk. paper)
Description:
253 p. ; 22 cm.
Summary:
Captain
Alatriste
is the story of a fictional seventeenth-century Spanish soldier who, after being wounded in battle during the Thirty Years' War, is forced to retire from the army. Now he lives the comparatively tame-though hardly quiet-life of a swordsman-for-hire in Madrid. Approached with an offer of work,
Alatriste
is told to go with another hired blade to an unfamiliar part of the city at midnight and wait. They are received by men who explain that they want
Alatriste
and his companion to ambush two travelers the following evening, stage a robbery, and give the men a fright. "No blood," they are told. But then a third figure enters the room. He says the job requires some clarification: he increases the pay, and tells them that, instead, they must murder the two travelers. Then he reveals his identity: Emilio Bocanegra. It is a name synonymous with the Spanish Inquisition, the bloodiest name in Europe. This is a man whose requests cannot be denied. But the following night, with the attack imminent, it becomes clear to
Alatriste
that these aren't ordinary travelers. And what happens next is only the first in a series of riveting twists and turns, with implications that will reverberate throughout the courts of Europe.
Genre:
Historical fiction.
Picaresque literature.
Spanish fiction -- Translations into English.
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