By Arturo Perez-Reverte
ISBN-10: 0452289742
ISBN-13: 9780452289741
Acclaimed writer Arturo P?rez-Reverte’s across the world bestselling sequence, the saga of the swordsman-for-hire Captain Alatriste, keeps within the solar Over Breda. Fifteen-year-old I?igo Balboa enlists to function his master’s aide, and narrates their additional adventures of swordplay and skirmishes, mutiny and wartime honor, as Captain Alatriste rejoins his Cartagena regiment to participate within the battles and siege of Breda. In Spain, Alatriste’s nemesis, Luis de Alqu?zar, grows extra strong, as I?igo’s mysterious good friend Ang?lica tricks at a few plans upon his go back. once more the exploits of the seventeenth-century mercenary will thrill and pleasure the legions of readers desirous to cheer a hero for the a long time.
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With gunpowder, tow, and tar, they set fire to the hall with the twenty Englishmen inside, then shot and knifed every one of them as they came out—those who did come out. Then began the sacking. According to military custom, in cities that did not surrender according to the proper stipulations or that were taken by assault, the victors were entitled to enter and sack. Thus, fired with greed for booty, each soldier fought as if ten and swore for a hundred. And as Oudkerk had not surrendered—the heretic governor had been shot in the first moments and the burgomaster simultaneously hanged at the door of his house and, furthermore, as the town had been won, in a word, through pure Spanish bollocks—no one had to sign a formal order allowing us Spaniards to break into any houses we deemed promising—which was all of them—and make off with anything that took our fancy.
Diego Alatriste stroked his mustache. ” That brought a curse from one of the men at the table, and Captain Bragado whirled around, eyes shooting sparks. All heads were lowered, all eyes cast down. Alatriste, who had recognized the voice of Curro Garrote, sent the Malagüeño a reproachful look. ” He had set the jar of wine down on the table without finishing it and had placed his hand to the hilt of his sword. His strong yellow teeth were gritted beneath his mustache. The effect was extremely disagreeable: They looked like the teeth of a bulldog ready to attack.
Your Mercies may recall that I had some experience of the written word from my days in la Villa y Corte de las Españas, that is, Madrid, owing to my friendship with don Francisco de Quevedo, who had given me Plutarch to read; Dómine Pérez’s lessons in Latin and grammar; my taste for Lope’s theater; and my master Captain Alatriste’s habit of reading wherever there was a book to be read. One of the men carrying books out and piling them in the street was an elderly Dutchman with long white hair. He was wearing black, as pastors there did, with a dirty collar and gray hose.