Published: 2005 by Plume
Format: Paperback, translated by Margaret Sayers Peden
Genre: Adventure
Diego Alatriste comes home wounded from the Thirty Years
War and now spends most of his time avoiding his debtors and drinking in a
tavern with an eccentric group of poets, aristocrats, and his page, the young
Inigo Balboa. The story, as told through
Inigo’s eyes, is a non-linear account of Alatriste’s commission as a
sword-for-hire to take out a pair of Englishmen as they travel through
Spain. Alatriste’s true character comes
through when he spares the Englishmen and ends up embroiling himself in a
conspiracy involving politics, religion, and the Spanish Inquisition. While Perez-Reverte’s scene-setting and
character back-story makes the pacing slower than most adventure tales, Captain Alatriste is a humorous, swashbuckling
tale for readers looking for a story with political intrigue, history, sword-play,
and old-fashioned heroics.
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