Name: Captain Alatriste
ISBN: 9780452287112

Arturo Pérez-Reverte

Margaret Sayers Peden

In a first installment of a new series of historical novels by the author of The Queen of the South, wounded seventeenth-century Spanish soldier Alatriste works as a swordsman-for-hire in Madrid, but when his latest job takes an unexpectedly deadly turn, he realizes he is in the employ of one of the Spanish Inquisition's most dangerous figures. Reprint.

Captain Alatriste

Vilandra

I liked the characters and it’s well written, but it’s just so obviously the set up for future books that I didn’t enjoy it as much as earlier Reverte work. I think I would rather they had combined this with the next book, so there weren’t as many allusions to future events with no payoff.