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On Sale April 5th, the international bestseller - Book Three of the Captain Alatriste series, The Sun Over Breda.
“The era of glorious captains, glorious attacks, and glorious booty was now long past, and the conflict had become a kind of long and tedious chess game in which strongholds were besieged, changed hands, and then besieged again, bravery often counting for less than patience.”
So begins The Sun Over Breda, a gloriously dramatic novel of war and honor that marks the return of international bestseller Arturo Perez-Reverte’s most beloved character, Captain Diego Alatriste, 17th-century sword-for-hire who leads his formidable band of soldiers in the name of King Philip IV of Spain against the Dutch in the battle for Flanders.
Narrated by young Íñigo Balboa, Alatriste’s faithful, soulful mochiler, The Sun Over Breda follows the throbbing pulse of combat fought on increasingly uncertain terms and an army growing more and more disenchanted with its king, and so less and less unwilling to risk life and limb for the cause. As Spanish blood spills into the Flemish canals, and the lethal flash of swordplay drains the men of their thirst for victory, unrest grows among the troops. With no promise of payment from their king, Alatriste is caught in the impassioned throes of mutiny, torn between fealty to the material needs of his men and his pledge to a crown for which he holds no love.
The Sun Over Breda is both a literary feast and a swashbuckling adventure that captures the tumultuous growing pains of the Spanish Golden Age, the bedlam of the Thirty Years’ War—and the passion and valor of Captain Alatriste, a hero for the ages.
Arturo Pérez-Reverte lives near Madrid. Originally a war journalist, he now writes fiction full-time. His novels—Captain Alatriste and its sequel, Purity of Blood, as well as The Queen of the South, The Club Dumas, The Fencing Master, The Seville Communion, The Nautical Chart and The Flanders Panel—have been translated into twenty-nine languages and published in more than fifty countries. In 2003, he was elected to the Spanish Royal Academy.
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Captain Alatriste
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