The Cavalier in the Yellow Doublet

Author(s): Arturo Perez-Reverte

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From the acclaimed and bestselling author comes the fifth adventure of Captain Alatriste, "the brooding, charismatic hero of his wildly successful Spanish swashbuckling novels" ("The New York Times").
In the cosmopolitan world of seventeenth-century Madrid, with its posh theaters and gleaming palaces, Captain Alatriste and his prot?g?, igo, are fish out of water. But the king and court are keeping Alatriste on retainer-he has proved useful in the past. As a veteran with no other source of income, Alatriste chooses to remain, even as his "employment" brings him uncomfortably close to old enemies. igo, now a young man and veteran of the Hundred Years War, chooses to remain with his master and press his ill-fated romance with the beautiful but sinister Ang?lica de Alqu?zar. Alatriste, for his part, begins an affair with the famous-and famously beautiful- actress Mar?a de Castro, and discovers that the competition for her favors may be much more dangerous than he'd bargained for, especially when Alatriste and igo become unwilling participants in a court conspiracy that could lead them both to the gallows.

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AFew contemporary writers conjure up derring-do as well as Arturo PTrez-Reerte, a Spanish literary maestro evoking Dumas.A
A"The Christian Scienceonitor"

AGreat fun in the tradition of historical swashbucklers suchas "The Three Musketeers" or "The Scarlet Pimpernel".A
A"The Bton Globe"

AAbsolutely riveting from beginning to end.A
A"Entainment Weekly"

General Fields

  • : 9780399156038
  • : Putnam Adult
  • : Putnam Adult
  • : 0.499
  • : September 2009
  • : United States
  • : books

Special Fields

  • : 369
  • : 863.64
  • : Hardback
  • : Arturo Perez-Reverte