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1. Captain Alatriste

   • Arturo Pérez Reverte

   • 253bladzijden
   • 9 uur lezen

   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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2. Purity of Blood

   • Margaret Sayers Peden

   • 268bladzijden
   • 10 uur lezen

   The second swashbuckling adventure in the internationally acclaimed Captain Alatriste series Captain Alatriste, Madrid’s most charismatic swashbuckler, returns in Perez-Reverte’s acclaimed international bestseller. 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. A literary thriller that delivers adventure and rich historical detail, Purity of Blood captivates to the final page.

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3. The Sun Over Breda

   • Reverte-Pérez

   The third in the bestselling Captain Alatriste series.

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4. De Avonturen van Kapitein Alatriste - 4: Het Goud van de Koning

   • Arturo Pérez Reverte

   • 240bladzijden
   • 9 uur lezen

   Diego Alatriste - dapper, rechtdoorzee, en erudiet, maar ook een groot vrouwenliefhebber, zwaar drinker en huurmoordenaar. De navelstreng die het arme - maar paradoxaal genoeg rijke - Spanje in leven hield was de vloot van de route naar West-Indië, die op ze al even hard werd bedreigd door de orkanen als door de zeerovers. Daarom betekende de aankomst van die vloot in Sevilla een onbeschrijflijk grandioos feest, want afgezien van het goud en het zilver van de koning en de particulieren, bracht die vloot ook de cochenille mee (de van een Mexicaans insect verkregen scharlakenrode kleurstof), indigo, hout van Campeche, hout van Brazilië, wol, katoen, allerlei soorten leer, suiker, tabak en kruiden, en niet te vergeten de rode peper, gember en Chinese zijde die via Acapulco van de Filipijnen werden aangevoerd. Kapitein Alatriste en zijn trouwe Iñigo zijn, na de Slag om Breda, teruggekeerd naar Spanje. Algauw wacht hun een nieuwe missie, een die te maken heeft met het goud dat uit Amerika naar Spanje komt. En niet altijd op een legale manier...

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5. The Cavalier in the Yellow Doublet

   • Arturo Pérez Reverte

   • 370bladzijden
   • 13 uur lezen

   The fifth novel in the adventures of Captain Alatriste, a seventeenth-century swashbuckler and "a twenty-first-century literary phenomenon." ( Entertainment Weekly ) In the cosmopolitan world of seventeenth-century Madrid, captain Alatriste and his protégé Íñigo are fish out of water. But the king is determined to keep Alatriste on retainer-regardless of whether his "employment" brings the captain uncomfortably close to old enemies. Alatriste begins an affair with the famous and beautiful actress, María Castro, but soon discovers that the cost of her favors may be more than he bargained for-especially when he and Íñigo become unwilling participants in a court conspiracy that could lead them both to the gallows . . .

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6. The Adventures of Captain Alatriste: Pirates of the Levant

   • Arturo Pérez Reverte

   • 384bladzijden
   • 14 uur lezen

   The sixth novel in the adventures of Captain Alatriste, set in a time when the only thing needed to summon hell on earth (or sea) was a Spaniard and his sword. Accompanied by his faithful foster son, Íñigo, Captain Alatriste accepts a job as a mercenary aboard a Spanish galleon. The ship sets sail from Naples on a journey that will take them to some of the most remote-and wretched- outposts of the empire: Morocco, Algeria, and finally to Malta for a stunning and bloody battle on the high seas that will challenge even the battle-hardened Alatriste's resolve. Now seventeen, Íñigo is almost ready to leave Alatriste, his foster father and fellow soldier. But will age and experience bring wisdom, or is he likely to repeat many of his mentor's mistakes?

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