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Perez-Reverte, Arturo

 
9780297848462: Captain Alatriste: A swashbuckling tale of action and adventure (The Adventures of Captai)
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ISBN 10: 0297848461 ISBN 13: 9780297848462
Verlag: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 2005

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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 was high and the decadent young king had 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.

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Arturo Perez-Reverte lives near Madrid. Originally a war correspondent, he now writes fiction full-time. His novels include The Flanders Panel, The Club Dumas, The Fencing Master, The Nautical Chart, and The Queen of the South. In 2002, he was elected to the Spanish Royal Academy.

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Verlag
Weidenfeld & Nicolson
Erscheinungsdatum
2005
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0297848461
ISBN 13 
9780297848462
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Auflage
1
Anzahl der Seiten
240
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