Contributions

  • Costa, Margaret Jull. - Contributor

Publication

2009 - G.P. Putnam's Sons, New York, New York (State)

Language

English

Word Count

92,250 words, Guess

Page Count

369 pages

Identifiers

and 6 more
  • Library of Congress Control Number2009023056
  • OCLC Control Number318411547
  • Better World BooksO6-CXI-817
  • Better World Books9780399156038
  • Better World BooksP4-CDH-744
  • Open LibraryOL24060531M

Classifications

  • DDC863/.64
  • LCCPQ6666.E765 C3313 2003
  • LCCPQ6666.E765 C3313 2009
and 1 more
  • LCCPQ6666.E765C3313

Description

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 protege, Inigo, 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. Inigo, 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 Angelica de Alquezar. Alatriste, for his part, begins an affair with the famous—and famously beautiful— actress Maria de Castro, and discovers that the competition for her favors may be much more dangerous than he'd bargained for, especially when Alatriste and Inigo become unwilling participants in a court conspiracy that could lead them both to the gallows.

Subjects

Topics

FictionHistoryFicciónHistoriaSwordsmenSpain, fictionNovela española

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Genres

  • Fiction

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