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  The Flanders Panel

  by Arturo Perez-Reverte

  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 murder, but as she begins to look for... (more)
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  The Club Dumas

  by Arturo Perez-Reverte

  "A cross between Umberto Eco and Anne Rice. . . .Think of The Club Dumas as a beach book for intellectuals." --New York Daily News Lucas Corso, middle-aged, tired, and cynical, is a book detective, a mercenary hired to hunt down rare editions for wealthy and unscrupulous clients. When a well-known bibliophile is found hanged, leaving behind part of the original manuscript of Alexandre Dumas's The Three... (more)
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  The Seville Communion

  by Sonia Soto, Arturo Perez-Reverte

  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 question his loyalty, his vow of... (more)
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  Purity of Blood

  by Arturo Perez-Reverte

  The second swashbuckling adventure in the internationally acclaimed Captain Alatriste series Captain Alatriste, Madrid’s most charismatic swashbuckler, returns in Pérez-Reverte’s acclaimed international bestseller. The fearless Alatriste is hired to infiltrate a convent and rescue a young girl forced to serve as a powerful priest’s concubine. The girl’s father is barred from legal recourse as the... (more)
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  The Nautical Chart

  by Arturo Perez-Reverte

  Coy is a sailor without a ship.Tánger Soto is a woman with an obsession to find the Dei Gloria, a ship sunk during the seventeenth century, and El Piloto is an old man with the sailboat on which all three set out to seek their fortune together. Or do they?
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  Limpieza de sangre (Aventuras del Capitan Alatriste)

  by Arturo Perez-Reverte

  A woman has been found strangled in front of a local church. On her lap, a bag full of coins and note For masses for her soul. In a nearby convent for young society ladies, the chaplain is having unconventional encounters with his novices. Capitan Alatriste will soon discover how these two facts are connected by an entangled net of power, faith, and death.
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  El Sol de Breda (Aventuras del Capitan Alatriste)

  by Arturo Perez-Reverte

  Enlisted as aide of Capitan Alatriste in the Spanish regiments, Inigo de Balboa tries to survive in a world where he needs to get very close to his enemy in order to kill him with his sword. He witnesses a historic moment, the surrender of Breda, that he would retell later to his friend Velazquez for famous painting.
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  The Fencing Master

  by Arturo Perez-Reverte

  The unstoppable thrust is the arcane fencing technique known only by Don Jaime—and the deadly maneuver that a beautiful young woman wants him to teach her.What begins as a rather bold request leads Don Jaime into the shadowy politics and violence of mid-nineteenth-century Madrid.
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  El oro del rey (Perez-Reverte, Arturo. Aventuras Del Capitan Alatriste, 4.)

  by Arturo Perez-Reverte

  "El oro del rey" is the fourth installment in the series Las aventuras del Capitán Alatriste, the most widely read novel series in the nineties. In this book, Pérez-Reverte’s most popular hero returns from Flanders and undertakes a dangerous mission in Seville, the most fascinating seventeenth century city. His is charged with recruiting a motley group of brave swordsmen for a risky job involving the contraband... (more)
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  Captain Alatriste

  by Arturo Perez-Reverte

  The first in a magnificent series of historical novels from the acclaimed, bestselling author of The Club Dumas and The Queen of the South The novels of Arturo Pérez-Reverte have captivated readers around the world and earned him a reputation as "the master of the intellectual thriller" ( Chicago Tribune ). His books have been published in fifty countries. Now, beginning with Captain Alatriste ,... (more)
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  The Queen of the South

  by Arturo Perez-Reverte, Andrew Hurley

  Guero Davila is a pilot engaged in drug-smuggling for the local cartels. Teresa Mendoza is his girlfriend, a typical narco's morra, quiet, doting, submissive. But then Guero's caught playing both sides and in Sinaloa that means death. Teresa finds herself alone, terrified, friendless and running to save her life, carrying nothing but a gym bag containing a pistol and a notebook that she has been forbidden to read.... (more)
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  El Caballero Del Jubon Amarillo

  by Arturo Perez-Reverte

  This long awaited fifth installment of the famous adventures of Capitan Alatriste is set in an aristocratic love affair between Alatriste and Maraa de Castro, the most beautiful and famous actress of the Golden Era who is also being courted by Felipe IV. Action, history and adventure come together in these unforgettable pages of danger and excitement. Description in Spanish: Don Francisco de Quevedo me dirigio... (more)
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  El Husar

  by Arturo Perez-Reverte

  ¡°El H¨²sar is my first novel. Written in 1983 between two war articles, at that time I had no intentions to dedicate myself to writing literature, and published almost by chance by a publishing company with which I never maintained a good relationship, it has taken me almost twenty years to recover the publication rights. Now this novel surfaces again, finally to the author¡¯s liking, with a suitable revision,... (more)