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The cavalier in the yellow doublet / Arturo Pérez-Reverte ; translated from the Spanish by Margaret Jull Costa.

by Pérez-Reverte, Arturo

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G.P. Putnam's Sons, 2009, c2003.

Swordsmen -- Fiction.

Spain -- History -- Philip IV, 1621-1665 -- Fiction.

Pérez-Reverte, Arturo. Aventuras del capitán Alatriste. English.

El caballero del jubón amarillo. English English

Alternate title:

El caballero del jubón amarillo.

364 p. ; 22 cm.

"The adventures of Captain Alatriste"--Jacket.

Original Spanish title: El caballero del jubón amarillo.

Translated from the Spanish.

"In the cosmopolitan world of seventeenth-century Madrid, with its posh theaters and gleaming palaces, Captain Alatriste and his protégé, Íñigo, are fish out of water. But the king and court are keeping Alatriste on retainer-he has proved useful in the past. As a veteran with no other source of income, Alatriste chooses to remain, even as his "employment" brings him uncomfortably close to old enemies. Íñigo, now a young man and veteran of the Hundred Years War, chooses to remain with his master and press his ill-fated romance with the beautiful but sinister Angélica de Alquézar. Alatriste, for his part, begins an affair with the famous-and famously beautiful- actress María de Castro, and discovers that the competition for her favors may be much more dangerous than he'd bargained for, especially when Alatriste and Íñigo become unwilling participants in a court conspiracy that could lead them both to the gallows."--Publisher.

Adventure fiction.

Historical fiction.

Picaresque literature.

Spanish fiction -- Translations into English.

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