Purity of Blood - Hardcover

Arturo Perez-Reverte

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0399153209 ISBN 13: 9780399153204

Publisher: Putnam Adult, 2006

Synopsis

Hired to rescue a man's daughter from a convent where a powerful corrupt priest is forcing her to be his personal concubine, Alatriste finds himself thrust into a religious and political conspiracy with ties to the highest levels of the Inquisition. 80,000 first printing.

About this title

About the Author:

Arturo PĆ©rez-Reverte lives near Madrid. Originally a war journalist, he now writes fiction full-time. His novels have been published in fifty countries. In 2002, he was elected to the Spanish Royal Academy.

From Booklist:

Spanish novelist Perez-Reverte is known the world over for his historical thrillers, and now his earlier five-novel historical-fiction series, the Adventures of Captain Alatriste, all of which were huge best sellers in his native Spain, is being published in the U.S. for the first time, one volume at a time. Captain Alatriste (2005) was the first to appear, and now the second installment makes its American debut. The novels are set in seventeenth-century Spain, centered in the Spanish capital--during the time when the glitter of the Spanish empire was already showing itself to be thin and worn ("the dark, violent, and contradictory Spain of our Catholic king Philip IV"). Captain Diego Alatriste, a veteran of Spain's foreign wars, is currently a sword for hire. On this occasion, in this completely absorbing novel that, like the first one in the series, absolutely defines swashbuckling, he is contracted to help a man from a Jewish-turned-Catholic family rescue his daughter from behind the thick walls of a Madrid convent, which the chaplain "has turned . . . into his private seraglio." This novel is written in the mold of Dumas' musketeer novels and excitingly upholds the tradition. Brad Hooper
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About this edition

• Publisher: Putnam Adult
• Publication date: 2006
• ISBN 10: 0399153209
• ISBN 13: 9780399153204
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 267