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Gear up for swashbuckling adventure in the second “riveting”* historical thriller in the internationally acclaimed Captain Alatriste series.
The fearless Alatriste is hired to infiltrate a convent and rescue a young girl forced to serve as a powerful priest’s concubine. The girl’s father is barred from legal recourse as the priest threatens to reveal that the man’s family is “not of pure blood” and is, in fact, of Jewish descent—which will all but destroy the family name. As Alatriste struggles to save the young hostage from being burned at the stake, he soon finds himself drawn deeper and deeper into a conspiracy that leads all the way to the heart of the Spanish Inquisition.
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Arturo Pérez-Reverte’s novels have captivated readers around the world and earned him a reputation as “the master of the intellectual thriller” (Chicago Tribune). Originally a war correspondent, he now writes fiction full-time. His novels include the Captain Alatriste series, The Flanders Panel, The Club Dumas, The Fencing Master, The Seville Communion, The Nautical Chart, The Queen of the South, and What We Become. His books have been published in fifty countries.He is a member of the Spanish Royal Academy. He lives near Madrid, Spain.
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Spanish novelist Perez-Reverte is known the world over for his historical thrillers, and now his earlier five-novel historical-fiction series, the Adventures of Captain Alatriste, all of which were huge best sellers in his native Spain, is being published in the U.S. for the first time, one volume at a time. Captain Alatriste (2005) was the first to appear, and now the second installment makes its American debut. The novels are set in seventeenth-century Spain, centered in the Spanish capital--during the time when the glitter of the Spanish empire was already showing itself to be thin and worn ("the dark, violent, and contradictory Spain of our Catholic king Philip IV"). Captain Diego Alatriste, a veteran of Spain's foreign wars, is currently a sword for hire. On this occasion, in this completely absorbing novel that, like the first one in the series, absolutely defines swashbuckling, he is contracted to help a man from a Jewish-turned-Catholic family rescue his daughter from behind the thick walls of a Madrid convent, which the chaplain "has turned . . . into his private seraglio." This novel is written in the mold of Dumas' musketeer novels and excitingly upholds the tradition. Brad Hooper
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