Perez-Reverte wrote the Captain Alatriste seies as a homage to the adv enture books that had been his own initiation into the world of readin g as a boy - books such as Dumas's The Three Musketeers.Captain Alatri ste is a swordsman for hire in Spain in the 1620s - a time when Court intrigue was high and the decadent young king had dragged the country into a series of disastrous wars. As a hired 'blade', Alatriste become s involved in many political plots and must live by his wits. He comes face to face with hired assassins, court players, political moles, sm ugglers, pirates and of course, the infamous Spanish Inquisition...All the stories are told by Inigo Balboa, Alatriste's young page. The cas t of characters also includes Quevedo, an irrepressible subversive poe t who likes to start fights in the local tavern, the kind-hearted innk eeper and ex-prostitute who shares Alatriste's bed, the...
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