Kings Gold (HB)
Perez-Reverte, Arturo
"The fourth novel in the immensely satisfying Captain Alatriste series by Arturo Pérez-Reverte opens with a Spanish galleon sailing into a home port that is festooned with English corpses. The slain enemies, fruit of a failed Anglo-Dutch attack on Cádiz, `hung from gallows erected on the shore, along the edge of the bunches of grapes ripe for harvesting, except that these grapes had been harvested already`. Such carnage is a welcome sight to Spanish eyes in 1626, even eyes as jaded as those of our hero, Alatriste. For us, though, the scene is unsettling. Instead of action, we find action`s putrefied aftermath. The tone is not triumphant but exhausted. Alatriste, his young protégé Ínigo and his battered comrades...
ISBN: 978-0-399-15510-9
Дата выхода: январь 2012