PURITY of BLOOD: The Adventures of Captain Alatriste. [Translated from the Spanish by Margaret Sayer Peden.**]
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- 0297848631
- ISBN 13
- 9780297848639
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A woman has been found in a sedan chair in front of a church, strangled.In her hand,a pouch containing fifty escudos and a handwritten - but unsigned - note bearing the words 'For masses for her soul'.Chief Constable Martin Saldana confides in his old friend and comrade-in-arms,Diego Alatriste.Still in danger from the powerful enemies he made in his first adventure,Captain Alatriste is now considering a return to Flanders where war has just resumed.
But first,his old friend,the poet Quevedo,asks him for a favour.The daughter of one of his acquaintances must be rescued from a convent, where two powerful priests are seducing the young women in their charge.These men are protected by the Inquisition who call into question the daughter's purity of blood.This is a dangerous mission, and will once more bring Alatriste face to face with his mortal enemy, Gualterio Malatesta.But for a man of honour who lives by his sword, there is no choice but to fight . . .
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Sinopsis
The second swashbuckling adventure in the internationally acclaimed Captain Alatriste series Captain Alatriste, Madrids most charismatic swashbuckler, returns in Perez-Revertes acclaimed international bestseller. The fearless Alatriste is hired to infiltrate a convent and rescue a young girl forced to serve as a powerful priests concubine. The girls father is barred from legal recourse as the priest threatens to reveal that the mans family is not of pure blood and is, in fact, of Jewish descentwhich will all but destroy the family name. As Alatriste struggles to save the young hostage from being burned at the stake, he soon finds himself drawn deeper and deeper into a conspiracy that leads all the way to the heart of the Spanish Inquisition. A literary thriller that delivers adventure and rich historical detail, Purity of Blood captivates to the final page.
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- R. J. A. PAXTON-DENNY. (GB)
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- PURITY of BLOOD: The Adventures of Captain Alatriste. [Translated from the Spanish by Margaret Sayer Peden.**]
- Autor
- PEREZ-REVERTE**, ARTURO:
- Estado del libro
- Usado - FINE.
- Estado de la sobrecubierta
- FINE.
- Cantidad disponible
- 1
- Edición
- UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn.
- Encuadernación
- Tapa dura
- ISBN 10
- 0297848631
- ISBN 13
- 9780297848639
- Editorial
- LONDON.WEIDENFELD & NICOLSON,2006.
- Lugar de publicación
- London
- Primera fecha de publicación de esta edición
- 2006
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