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Cuando éramos honrados mercenarios
artículos 2005 a 2009
2009
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The articles gathered here were published during a period of time that witnessed financial euphoria and its subsequent collapse. The twenty-first century dawned to financial expansion, stock market fever, and easy credit, but it quickly turned into one of the deepest recessions of recent history. In a world accustomed to the sluggishness of what is politically correct, Perez-Reverte s articles, drawn from a dissenting and critical view of the world, dare to observe life from a personal point of view. Los articulos reunidos en este libro se han publicado durante un tiempo que ha pasado de la euforia economica al derrumbe. El siglo XXI se abrio con el entusiasmo de la expansion financiera, el crecimiento de la Bolsa, la fiebre inversora, las rentabilidades rapidas, los creditos faciles y muchas recalificaciones urbanisticas. Tanta frivolidad derivaria pronto en una de las crisis mas profundas de la historia reciente. En este tiempo, Arturo Perez-Reverte ha seguido publicando articulos semanales, como ha hecho puntualmente desde hace casi veinte anos. En ellos esta el latido de las incertidumbres que han dominado la primera decada del siglo. Algunos han resultado premonitorios.
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Arturo Pérez-Reverte
Arturo Pérez-Reverte
Author · 53 books

Arturo Pérez-Reverte Gutiérrez, is a Spanish novelist and ex-journalist. He worked as a war reporter for twenty-one years (1973 - 1994). He started his journalistic career writing for the now-defunct newspaper Pueblo. Then, he jumped to news reporter for TVE, Spanish national channel. As a war journalist he traveled to several countries, covering many conflicts. He put this experience into his book 'Territorio Comanche', focusing on the years of Bosnian massacres. That was in 1994, but his debut as a fiction writer started in 1983, with 'El húsar', a historical novella inspired in the Napoleonic era. Although his debut was not quite successful, in 1988, with 'The Fencing Master', he put his name as a serious writer of historic novels. That was confirmed in 1996, when was published the first book of his Captain Alatriste saga, which has been his trademark. After this book, he could leave definitely journalism for focusing on his career as a fiction writer. This saga, that happens in the years of the Spanish golden age, has seen, for now, seven volumes, where Pérez-Reverte shows, from his particular point of view, historical events from Spanish history in the 16th century. Apart from these, he also penned another successful works like Dumas Club and Flanders Panel, titles that, among others, made Pérez-Reverte one of the most famous and bestseller authors of Spanish fiction of our era.

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