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 ...

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 ...

"Captain Alatriste." By Arturo Perez-Reverte. Putnam. 272 Pages. $23.95. Arturo Perez-Reverte's saga of Captain Alatriste has been an enormous success in the author's native Spain and in Latin America ...

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 ...

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 ...

In 17th century Spain Diego Alatriste, a brave and heroic soldier, is fighting in his King's army in the Flandes region. His best mate, Balboa, falls in a trap and, near to death, asks Diego to look ...

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 ...