The roiling 17th-century Madrid of Captain Alatriste is “a place where a man had to fight for his life on a street corner lighted by the gleam of two blades.” It is a place fit for swashbuckling and ...

In the current rather inhospitable environment for fiction, Captain Alatriste is like a bright Spanish flower. Written by Madrid-based Arturo Pérez-Reverte, has jumped the pond after years of ...

Spain 17th century. Diego Alatriste, brave and heroic soldier, is fighting under his King's army in the Flandes region. His best mate, Balboa, falls in a trap and near to die ask to Diego, as his last ...

Spending a great deal of time working in the bookstore generally means I get to read more about reading than actually sitting down with a good book. The vast quantities of reviews, advertisements, ...

Viggo Mortensen, star of The Lord of the Rings films and Hidalgo, is in talks to star in the Spanish period adventure Alatriste, according to today's Variety. Mortensen would play Captain Alatriste, a ...

A new breed of mystery.

International bestseller Pérez-Reverte (The Club Dumas) offers a winning swashbuckler set in 17th-century Spain. Hooded figures, apparently acting on the behalf of Fray Emilio Bocanegra, "president of ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... THE TAVERN OF THE TURK He was not the most honest or pious of men, but he was courageous. His name was Diego Alatriste y Tenorio, and he had fought in the ...

Captain Alatriste Arturo Pérez-Reverte’s moody, wounded semi-hero in Captain Alatriste — part cantankerous mercenary, part man of honor in a roiling society of pomp, pistols, and provocation — is a ...