Limpieza de Sangre / Purity of Blood

from kalobo

Brought up on Zorro, the Three Musketeers and the Scarlet Pimpernel, I was hooked on the Spanish Captain Alatriste by page two and eagerly await each new installment. Perez-Reverte writes with an intelligence often lacking in great adventures like these.

from msaucier818

A very quick read that was better than the first book in the Alatriste chronicles. This book is a very short story that follows the adventures of a former soldier and now sword for hire Captain Alatriste. As a history teacher, I very much enjoyed the historical background of 16th century Spain. T...

from TadAD

This is the second in Pérez-Reverte's series about Diego Alatriste, a sword-for-hire in 17th century Spain. Moving from the intrigues with England of the first book, this story brings the characters up against the Spanish Inquisition, as Alatriste and Iñigo are betrayed in an attempt to extract a...

from TheIdleWoman

Thoroughly enjoyable swashbuckling romp, set in the Spain of Velazquez and Philip IV. Captain Alatriste, a hired sword and man of honour, is a suitably noble hero in a corrupt and inglorious age. His page, Inigo, narrates a tale full of plots, intrigues and honour. If you enjoy Dumas, or Cyrano d...

from neurodrew

The second of the novels about Captain Alatriste, a Spanish swordsman in the Madrid of Phillip the Fourth in 17th century Spain, and his complex adventures. He is involved this time in a failed plot to rescue a nun held against her will; his ward, the narrator of the novel, is captured and held b...