A thinking man's adventure novel, where sword fights and tales of derring‑do are interwoven with wonderful passages of poetry and gems of historical and cultural information' Guy Florita, The Times 'Our hero is an ex‑soldier [who] has a certain fatalistic melancholy, as well as a voracious reading habit. Wolfish grey eyes, battle scars, a warrior's code of honour and...
A thinking man's adventure novel, where sword fights and tales of derring‑do are interwoven with wonderful passages of poetry and gems of historical and cultural information' Guy Florita, The Times 'Our hero is an ex‑soldier [who] has a certain fatalistic melancholy, as well as a voracious reading habit. Wolfish grey eyes, battle scars, a warrior's code of honour and...
Arturo Pérez-Reverte is the internationally bestselling author of The Queen of the South and Captain Alatriste . He lives near Madrid, Spain. Hardboiled, mordantly funny, unapologetically entertaining.–Time Wonderful, stirring entertainment.–The New York Times Book Review It’s great fun in the tradition of historical swashbucklers such as The Three Musketeers or The Scarlet...
Arturo Pérez-Reverte is the internationally bestselling author of The Queen of the South and Captain Alatriste . He lives near Madrid, Spain.
Hardboiled, mordantly funny, unapologetically entertaining.–Time.
Wonderful, stirring entertainment.–The New York Times Book Review.
It’s great fun in the tradition of historical swashbucklers such as The Three Musketeers or The Scarlet...
Internationally acclaimed and bestselling author Arturo Pérez-Reverte began his career as a war journalist, but now writes fiction full‑time. His seven books, including The Queen of the South and Captain Alatriste , have been translated into more than twenty‑nine languages in more than fifty countries. His books have sold millions of copies worldwide. Hard‑boiled, mordantly...
Internationally acclaimed and bestselling author Arturo Pérez-Reverte began his career as a war journalist, but now writes fiction full‑time. His seven books, including The Queen of the South and Captain Alatriste , have been translated into more than twenty‑nine languages in more than fifty countries. His books have sold millions of copies worldwide. Hard‑boiled, mordantly...
Arturo Pérez‑Reverte lives near Madrid. Originally a war journalist, he now writes fiction full‑time. His novels The Flanders Panel, The Club Dumas, The Fencing Master, The Seville Communion, The Nautical Chart, and The Queen of the South have been translated into twenty‑nine languages and published in more than fifty countries. In 2003, Pérez‑Reverte was elected to the Spanish...
Arturo Pérez‑Reverte lives near Madrid. Originally a war journalist, he now writes fiction full‑time. His novels The Flanders Panel, The Club Dumas, The Fencing Master, The Seville Communion, The Nautical Chart, and The Queen of the South have been translated into twenty‑nine languages and published in more than fifty countries. In 2003, Pérez‑Reverte was elected to the Spanish...
Arturo Pérez‑Reverte lives near Madrid. Originally a war journalist, he now writes fiction full‑time. His novels The Flanders Panel , The Club Dumas , The Fencing Master , The Seville Communion , The Nautical Chart , and The Queen of the South have been translated into twenty‑nine languages and published in more than fifty countries. In 2003, he was elected to the Spanish Royal...
Arturo Pérez‑Reverte lives near Madrid. Originally a war journalist, he now writes fiction full‑time. His novels The Flanders Panel , The Club Dumas , The Fencing Master , The Seville Communion , The Nautical Chart , and The Queen of the South have been translated into twenty‑nine languages and published in more than fifty countries. In 2003, he was elected to the Spanish Royal...
G.P. Putnam's Sons, 2010. — 384 p. — ISBN: 039915664X (ISBN13: 9780399156649) This was a time when Spain was revered, feared, and hated in the easterly seas; when the devil had no color, no name, and no flag; and when the only thing needed to summon hell on earth (or sea) was a Spaniard and his sword. Accompanied by his faithful foster son, Íñigo, Captain Alatriste accepts a...
Mariner Books, 2006. — 362 p. — ISBN: 9780156032834 Lucas Corso is a book detective, a middle-aged mercenary hired to hunt down rare editions for wealthy and unscrupulous clients. When a well-known bibliophile is found dead, leaving behind part of the original manuscript of Alexandre Dumas's The Three Musketeers, Corso is brought in to authenticate the fragment. He is soon...
Publisher: Boston, Harvest Books, 2004. – 680 p. Language: English. Original title: La tabla de Flandes (1990). Translator: Margaret Jull Costa. Description: A fifteenth-century painting by a Flemish master is about to be auctioned when Julia, a young art restorer, discovers a peculiar inscription hidden in a corner: Who killed the knight? In the painting, the Duke of Flanders and...
A fifteenth-century painting by a Flemish master is about to be auctioned when Julia, a young art restorer, discovers a peculiar inscription hidden in a corner: Who killed the knight? In the painting, the Duke of Flanders and his knight are locked in a game of chess, and a dark lady lurks mysteriously in the background. Julia is determined to solve the five-hundred-year-old...
Publisher: New York, Plum, 2005. – 918 p. Language: English. Original title: La Reina del Sur (2002). Description: Few authors inspire the kind of passion that Arturo Pérez-Reverte does. Reviewers, readers, and booksellers alike have embraced his fiction as the perfect blend of suspense and literary ambition. A global bestseller, he is one of the most admired and widely read...
Few authors inspire the kind of passion that Arturo Pérez-Reverte does. Reviewers, readers, and booksellers alike have embraced his fiction as the perfect blend of suspense and literary ambition. A global bestseller, he is one of the most admired and widely read authors in the world. And his stunning new novel is his best yet.
A remarkable tale, The Queen of the South spans...
A diabolically good hacker puts a message on the pope’s computer, pleading for him to save a seventeenth-century Spanish church—a church that is killing to defend itself.
Although Our Lady of the Tears is but a crumbling baroque building in the heart of Seville, it is also the center of a multilayered mystery—one that will force ecclesiastical sleuth Father Lorenzo Quart to...
Publisher: New York, Mariner Books, 2004. – 685 p. Language: English. Original title: La piel del tambor (1995). Translator: Sonia Soto. Description: Adiabolically good hacker puts a message on the pope’s computer, pleading for him to save a seventeenth-century Spanish church—a church that is killing to defend itself.Although Our Lady of the Tears is but a crumbling baroque...
Atria Books, 2016. — 464 p. — ISBN: 9781476751 En route from Lisbon to Buenos Aires in 1928, Max and Mecha meet aboard a luxurious transatlantic cruise ship. There Max teaches the stunning stranger and her erudite husband to dance the tango. A steamy affair ignites at sea and continues as the seedy decadence of Buenos Aires envelops the secret lovers. Nice, 1937. Still drawn to...
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