Part of Series
VUELVE EL CAPITÁN ALATRISTE La nueva y esperada entrega de la serie de novelas de aventuras que cambió la forma de leer y entender el Siglo de Oro «Sonaba la medianoche en los relojes de París cuando entraron por la puerta de Saint-Jacques cuatro jinetes tan seguros de sí mismos como el trote firme de sus caballos». Es medianoche. Íñigo Balboa, que forma parte de los Correos Reales del rey católico, aguarda expectante la llegada del capitán Alatriste, de Francisco de Quevedo y de Sebastián Copons a París, donde se encuentra para entregar unos despachos al conde de Guadalmedina. Hace casi un año que no se reúnen, cuando acabó la arriesgada encomienda que tuvieron que afrontar en Venecia. Son tiempos complejos para desde hace unos meses, los hugonotes de La Rochela, con apoyo inglés, están viviendo un duro asedio por parte de las fuerzas francesas a las órdenes del cardenal Richelieu. Por mediación de Quevedo, Alatriste y sus amigos se ven envueltos en una peligrosa misión secreta ideada por el conde-duque de Olivares. Esta vez el objetivo es de tal magnitud, que la aventura a la que se enfrentan podría cambiar para siempre el curso de los acontecimientos.
Author
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.
