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When a well-known bibliophile is found hanged, Lucas Corso is
brought in to authenticate a fragment of a manuscript purported to
be "The Three Musketeers." He is soon drawn into a swirling plot
involving devil worship, occult practices, and a swashbuckling cast
that bears a suspicious resemblance to those in the famous work.
Spanning continents and decades and encompassing sensuality,
cruelty, treachery and corruption, this is Perez-Reverte's most
remarkable novel to date Guero Davila is a pilot engaged in
drug-smuggling for the local cartels. Teresa Mendoza is his
girlfriend, a typical narco's morra, quiet, doting, submissive. But
then Guero's caught playing both sides and in Sinaloa that means
death. Teresa is alone, terrified, friendless and running to save
her life, carrying nothing but a gym bag containing a pistol and a
notebook that she has been forbidden to read. Forced to leave
Mexico, she flees to the Spanish city of Melilla where she meets
Santiago Fisterra, a Galician involved in trafficking hashhish
across the Strait of Gibraltar. When Santiago's partner is
captured, it is Teresa who steps in to take his place. Now Teresa
has plunged into the dark and ugly world that once claimed Guero's
life - and she's about to get in deeper...
A compelling tale of art, love and war... A man lives alone in a
watchtower by the sea. On the circular walls of the tower he is
painting a grand mural - the timeless landscape of a battle. He is
a former war photographer, and the painting is his attempt to
capture the photo he was never able to take; to encapsulate, in an
instant, the meaning of war. But one day a stranger knocks on his
door and announces that he has come to kill him. The man is a
shadow from his past, one of the myriad faces of war, and now the
consequences of his actions are brought home to him. As the novel
progresses, the story of both the soldier and the artist emerge,
entwined with a doomed love affair, and the progress of a painting
that is infused with the history of art. Intense and turbulent this
is a book about art, war, love and the human capacity for both
violence and empathy. It asks very profound questions about human
nature and the role of the artist, but it is also has the intensity
of a psychological thriller as the painter trades stories with the
man who has come to kill him - like the Knight playing chess with
Death in the Seventh Seal....
In this fourth instalment, Captain Alatriste becomes involved in a
mission to save the King of Spain's gold... Swashbuckling adventure
and high octane action. The year is 1626, and a battle-weary
Captain Alatriste and his companions sail home from the on-going
war in Flanders. He returns to a Spain that is rotten to the core,
as gold from the Americas floods into the port of Seville, brought
by the country's infamous treasure fleet. As various factions
within the Court vie for supremacy, certain interests are creaming
off undeclared profits from the galleons' cargo, thus depriving the
royal treasury of its lifeblood. Indeed some of the booty is
finding its way into the hands of the same rebel provinces Spain is
fighting to suppress. The King and his most trusted advisor, the
Count-Duke Olivares, have become aware of one such plot and have
decided to teach the perpetrator a lesson. Once more, they must
call upon Captain Alatriste's blade in a dangerous adventure that
will bring the captain face to face with his nemesis, and with a
ruthless man who has designs on the throne...
Captain Alatriste's latest adventure - a story of skirmishes,
privateers, boarded ships, swords and sackings. 'This was a time
where Spain was revered, feared and hated in the easterly seas;
where the devil had no colour, no name and no flag, and where the
only thing needed to summon hell on earth (or sea for that matter)
was a Spaniard and his sword' Alatriste is back - this time on the
high seas! Accompanied by his faithful companion Inigo, the captain
joins a Spanish galleon and sets sail from Naples towards the east
on a journey that will take them to Melilla, Oran, and finally
Malta where they must struggle against the Turk. On board they will
have many adventures, including an encounter with The Moor
Gurriato. Now seventeen, Inigo is still in love with Angelica but
will wisdom come with age and experience?
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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Captain Alatriste (Paperback)
Arturo Perez-Reverte; Translated by Margaret Sayers Peden
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The first action-packed historical adventure in the internationally
acclaimed Captain Alatriste series, featuring a Spanish soldier who
lives as a swordsman-for-hire in 17th century Madrid. Needing gold
to pay off his debts, Captain Alatriste and another hired blade are
paid to ambush two travelers, stage a robbery, and give the
travelers a fright. "No blood," they are told.Then a mysterious
stranger enters to clarify the job: he increases the pay, and tells
Alatriste that, instead, he must murder the two travelers. When the
attack unfolds, Alatriste realizes that these aren't ordinary
travelers, and what happens next is only the first in a riveting
series of twists and turns, with implications that will reverberate
throughout the courts of Europe...
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The Nautical Chart (Paperback)
Arturo Perez-Reverte; Translated by Margaret Sayers Peden
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"With his chess-like plots and mysterious characters, Arturo Perez-Reverte has established himself as the master of the intellectual thriller, a reputation again confirmed with "The Nautical Chart."--"Chicago Tribune Coy is a suspended sailor without a ship. At an auction in Barcelona, he meets a beautiful woman obsessed with the "Dei Gloria, a Jesuit ship sunk by pirates in the seventeenth century. Tanger uses her considerable skills with men and her expertise with atlases and nautical maps to search for the ship's rumored lost treasure. Coy is quickly drawn into her search and finds himself falling in love as they seek their fortune together-or do they? This masterfully plotted novel combines richness of atmosphere with the addictive romance and mystery of the sea. It is an unforgettable adventure. Internationally acclaimed author Arturo Perez-Reverte was born in 1951 in Spain, where he lives. His bestselling books have been translated into nineteen languages in thirty countries and have sold millions of copies.
Fencing is not a game but a science. The outcome is invariably the same: triumph or disaster, life or death. Jaime Astarloa is a master-fencer of the old school, priding himself on the precision, dignity and honour of his ancient art. It is 1868; Spain teeters on the brink of revolution, his friends spend their days in caf-s discussing plots at court, but Jaime's obsession is to perfect the irresistible sword thrust. Then Adela de Otero, violet-eyed and enigmatic, appears at his door. When Jaime takes her on as a pupil he finds himself embroiled in dark political intrigues against which his old-fashioned values are no protection.
The clue to a murder in the art world of contemporary Madrid lies hidden in a medieval painting of a game of chess. In the 15th-century Flemish painting two noblemen are playing chess. Yet two years before he could sit for the portrait, one of them was murdered. Now, in a 20th-century Madrid, Julia, a picture restorer preparing the painting for auction, uncovers and inscription that points to the crime: Quis necavit equitem? Who killed the knight? But as she teams up with a brillian chess theoretician to retrace the moves, she discovers the deadly game is not yet over.
In the world of rare books everything has its price. But when the book is a satanic tract, the currency is not money but life. A well-know bibliophile is found hanged days after selling a rare manuscript of Alexander Dumas's classic, The Three Musketeers. Across Madrid, Spain's wealthiest book dealer has finally laid his hands on a 17th-century manual for summoning the devil. Lucas Corso, solitary and obsessive, is the detective hired to authenticate both texts. But the further he follows the trail of devil worship, the more it leads him back to Dumas. He's the unwitting protagonist in someone's evil plot, but is he sleuth or hero, Sherlock Holmes or d'Artagnan?
Murderous goings-on in a tiny baroque church draw the Vatican into the dark heart of Seville. A hacker gets into the Pope's personal computer to leave a warning about mysterious deaths in a small church in Seville that is threatened with demolition. Father Quart, a suave Vatican trouble-shooter, is sent to investigate. Experience has taught him to deal with enemies of the Church in all their guises, but nothing has prepared him for the stubborn faith of Father Ferro, or the appeal of the lovely Macarena Bruner, desperate to save the church of her ancestors from her ex-husband, the ruthless banker Pencho Gavira. As Quart is drawn into an intrigue as labyrinthine as the streets of Seville, soon more than his vocation is in danger.
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