From international bestselling author Arturo Pérez-Reverte comes the fourth adventure of Captain Alatriste in the “series [that] recalls the great adventure novels of Dumas and Scott”(The New York Times). Seville, After serving with honor at the bloody siege of Breda, Captain Alatriste and his protégé, Iñigo Balboa, accept a risky job involving a dozen swordsmen and mercenaries at their /5(57). Having sold four and a half million copies to date in the Spanish-speaking world, the series has made Pérez-Reverte a literary superstar and his fictional seventeenth-century mercenary a national icon. The King's Gold picks up in Seville, After serving with honor at the bloody siege of Breda, Captain Alatriste and his protégé, Inigo Balboa, have returned: battle-weary, short of cash, and with few . From the international bestselling author, the fourth adventure of Captain Alatriste, "the brooding charismatic hero of [Pérez-Reverte's] wildly successful Spanish swashbuckling novels" (The New York Times) With The King's Gold, bestselling author Arturo Pérez-Reverte continues to enthrall readers and critics with his heroic seventeenth-century mercenary, Captain Alatriste.
Onyx reviews: The King's Gold by Arturo Pérez-Reverte The third novel in the Captain Alatriste series, The Sun Over Breda, was dark, grim and violent, focusing on the trenchant war in Flanders, where the Spanish army threatened to go on strike over lack of payment. Praise for The King's Gold "[Pérez-Reverte] brings Seville to life as if her were animating a painting by Velázquez."—The New York Times "Fans of the series have come to expect historical authenticity, crisp prose, complex characters, exotic settings, and plenty of sanguinary action. The King's Gold Arturo Perez-Reverte, Author, Margaret Jull Costa, Translator, trans. from the Spanish by Margaret Jull Costa. Putnam $ (p) ISBN
The gold at the center of this novel has been smuggled from the West Indies and is destined not for King Philip's treasury but for "private pockets," perhaps even for the coffers of Spain's enemies. Pérez-Reverte succinctly explains the political and economic background, which we discover along with Alatriste as he learns the details of his mission: to recover the king's treasure from a ship off Seville. From international bestselling author Arturo Pérez-Reverte comes the fourth adventure of Captain Alatriste in the “series [that] recalls the great adventure novels of Dumas and Scott”(The New York Times). Seville, After serving with honor at the bloody siege of Breda, Captain Alatriste and his protégé, Iñigo Balboa, accept a risky job involving a dozen swordsmen and mercenaries at their command, a dazzling amount of contraband gold, and a heavily guarded Spanish galleon. From the international bestselling author, the fourth adventure of Captain Alatriste With The King?s Gold, bestselling author Arturo Pérez-Reverte continues to enthrall readers and critics with his heroic seventeenth-century mercenary, Captain Alatriste. The fourth adventure picks up in Seville in
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