369 pages
English language
Published Jan. 13, 2009 by G.P. Putnam's Sons.
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In the cosmopolitan world of seventeenth-century Madrid, with its posh theaters and gleaming palaces, Captain Alatriste and his protégé, Íñigo, become unwilling participants in a court conspiracy that could lead them both to the gallows.
Subjects
- Alatriste, Diego (Fictitious character) -- Fiction
- Swordsmen -- Spain -- Fiction
- Spain -- History -- Philip IV, 1621-1665 -- Fiction