Reading order
Captain Alatriste reading order
- The Captain Alatriste1996
- Purity of Blood1997
- The Sun over Breda1998
- The King's Gold2000
- The Cavalier in the Yellow Doublet2003
- Pirates of the Levant2006
- The Bridge of the Assassins2011
- Mission in Paris2025
- 8 volumes
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- 1996–2025
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8 volumes1996–2025Ongoing
- Arturo Pérez-Reverte’s swashbuckling novels about Diego Alatriste, a taciturn veteran of the Flanders wars who earns his living as a hired sword in the Madrid of Philip IV, a seventeenth-century Spain of glory, bankruptcy and the Inquisition.
- They are narrated years later by his young page, Íñigo Balboa, and the poet Quevedo is among their friends.
- Short, vivid and steeped in Golden Age Spanish, with duels, ambushes and the siege of Breda.
- Filmed in 2006 with Viggo Mortensen.
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