Patrick obrian arturo perez reverte biography

  • Following the Pérez-Reverte has increased the library to include the complete works of Melville, Jack London, Conrad and Patrick O'Brian as well.
  • This marvelous thriller—a seafaring mystery that pointedly evokes the immortal romances of Melville, Stevenson, and Conrad—is the fifth (and best) fiction.
  • He is a former war correspondent, member of the Spanish Royal Academy and the author of a terrific series of historical adventures set in.

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    Review: Pirates of the Levant - Arturo Perez-Reverte

    Here is a world motivated by machismo and religious prejudice (there are modern resonances in the conflict between Christians and Muslims) in which loyalty serves as the glue to friendship. The Captain and Inigo reunite with old comrades and take up with new ones including Gurriato, a devoted Moor.

    Inigo confronts a prostitute and her theatrically threatening pimp as well as a card sharp and his cohorts intent on krävande revenge. Elsewhere the dangers are shared and rather more universal as the twosome participate in a raid on an Arab encampment outside Oran in Algeria and in a spectacular sea battle which serves as the enthralling climax to the book.

    Perez-Reverte has created two derring-do heroes who stand shoulder-to-shoulder with the likes of Patrick O’Brian’s Jack Aubrey and Stephen Maturin.

    Weidenfeld & Nicolson, £14.99.

    The Express Bookshop, PO Box 200, Falmouth TR11 4WJ or order via www.expressbookshop.co.uk

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    Pirates of the Levant

    The previous Captain Alatriste novel (or the gods one to be translated and released in the US) was titled THE CAVALIER IN THE YELLOW DOUBLET, and there you have it. “Cavalier” is one of those loaded words; it carries with it connotations of chivalry and swordplay and courtly love and roistering in the streets --- and all of that was in there and more. This book is called PIRATES OF THE LEVANT, and if ever there was a loaded word, it is “pirates.” Shiver me timbers, lads, and point me to the buried treasure. Arrr.

    Well, these aren’t those kind of pirates, you understand, and although Captain Alatriste fryst vatten a soldier of fortune --- and to make the pop culture reference, he would man a very fine Dread Pirate Roberts --- he emphatically fryst vatten not a pirate. The pirates are the enemies here, and fine stout foes they are, and it is Alatriste’s job to rob them of their plunder and make the waters of the wine-dark Mediterranean safe for

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    Captain Alatriste by Arturo Pérez-Reverte

    He was not the most honest or pious of men, but he was courageous.

    I first read Captain Alatriste by Arturo Pérez-Reverte twelve years ago, and it didn’t make much of an impact on me then. It was the third book in a row I had read by Pérez-Reverte, following The Club Dumas and The Fencing Master, and I think I was anxious to move on to something else and didn’t give it a fair chance. So I was very happy to receive a paperback copy for Christmas as part of LibraryThing’s SantaThing program.

    Described as “The Spanish Musketeer,” Captain Alatriste sounds exactly like my kind of book:

    The first action-packed historical adventure in the internationally acclaimed Captain Alatriste series, featuring a Spanish soldier who lives as a swordsman-for-hire in 17th century Madrid.

    Needing gold to pay off his debts, Captain Alatriste and another hired blade are paid to ambush two travelers, stage a robbery, and

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