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Les Aventures du Capitaine Alatriste - Le soleil de Breda - Tome 3 (original 1998; edition 1999)

by Arturo Pérez-Reverte (Author)

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The third swashbuckling adventure in the internationally acclaimed Captain Alatriste series. Fifteen-year-old Iñigo Balboa enlists to serve as his master's aide, and narrates their further adventures of swordplay and skirmishes, mutiny and wartime honor, as Captain Alatriste rejoins his Cartagena regiment to take part in the battles and siege of Breda. In Spain, Alatriste's nemesis, Luis de Alquézar, grows more powerful, as Iñigo's mysterious friend Angélica hints at some plans upon his return. Once again the exploits of the seventeenth-century mercenary will thrill and delight the legions of readers eager to cheer a hero for the ages.… (more)
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Title:Les Aventures du Capitaine Alatriste - Le soleil de Breda - Tome 3
Authors:Arturo Pérez-Reverte (Author)
Info:Le Seuil (1999), 230 pages
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The Sun Over Breda by Arturo Pérez-Reverte (1998)

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    The Seville Communion by Arturo Pérez-Reverte (leosabana)
    leosabana: Es una muy buena novela seudo-policíaca en la que se hace un retrato costumbrista de la sociedad sevillana actual.
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Beforehand I was not convinced about the idea of this book being a war story rather than an adventure swashbuckling story. However I am a convert now. I complained in my review of the previous book that Reverte did not completely get into the story, that he was perhaps a bit too interested in the didactic part of these books to truly do the story justice. That problem does not exist here. Reverte gets into the story all right and as a result the pace is better, without losing the distinctive style of the series.

The only problem is that the ending is a bit rushed, almost anticlimatic, but the novel remains very enjoyable. ( )
  jcm790 | May 26, 2024 |
The black sheep of the Alatriste novels, The Sun Over Breda sees author Arturo Pérez-Reverte abandon his usual Dumas-lite adventure tendencies in favour of a rather pedestrian war story. Captain Alatriste and our narrator Íñigo are bogged down in the mud of the siege of Breda, in a war against the Dutch, and unfortunately the narrative is bogged down too. There's no adventure developing, no plot, just a succession of (occasionally interesting) battle scenes.

It's well-written (there's a good scene in the aftermath of the main battle, as the young and introspective Íñigo explores his after-battle emotions) and as a war tale/historical novel it's sort of good. The problem is it's not so good you can recommend it on that basis alone, and it falls far short of slaking the adventure thirst that readers of the series will be expecting. Captain Alatriste himself is a peripheral figure in the story, but no one else steps up to fill his shoes. ( )
  MikeFutcher | Dec 18, 2023 |
El sol de Breda
Arturo Pérez-Reverte
Publicado: 1998 | 161 páginas
Novela Aventuras Bélico Histórico
Serie: Las aventuras del capitán Alatriste #3 /sx0O0KR0o_G4

«Al lento batir de los tambores, las primeras filas de españoles movíanse hacia adelante, y Diego Alatriste avanzaba con ellas, codo a codo con sus camaradas, ordenados y soberbios como si desfilaran ante el propio rey. Los mismos hombres amotinados días antes por sus pagas iban ahora dientes prietos, mostachos enhiestos y cerradas barbas, andrajos cubiertos por cuero engrasado y armas relucientes, fijos los ojos en el enemigo, impávidos y terribles, dejando tras de sí la humareda de sus cuerdas de arcabuz encendidas»… Flandes, 1625. Alistado como mochilero del capitán Alatriste en los tercios viejos que asedian Breda, Íñigo Balboa es testigo excepcional de la rendición de la ciudad, cuyos pormenores narrará diez años más tarde para un cuadro famoso de su amigo Diego Velázquez. Siguiendo a su amo por el paisaje pintado al fondo de ese cuadro, al otro lado del bosque de lanzas, veremos a Íñigo empuñar por primera vez la espada y el arcabuz, peleando por su vida y la de sus amigos. Estocadas, asaltos, batallas, desafíos, encamisadas, saqueos y motines de la infantería española, jalonarán su camino a través de un mundo devastado por el invierno y por la guerra.
  libreriarofer | Aug 8, 2023 |
Limpieza de sangre
Arturo Pérez-Reverte
Publicado: 1997 | 163 páginas
Novela Aventuras Histórico
Serie: Las aventuras del capitán Alatriste #2

A punto de incorporarse a su antiguo tercio en Flandes, Diego Alatriste se ve envuelto por mediación de su amigo don Francisco de Quevedo en otra peligrosa aventura. Una mujer ha aparecido estrangulada en una silla de manos frente a la iglesia de San Ginés, con una bolsa de dinero y una nota manuscrita: Para misas por su alma. El enigma se complica con los sucesos misteriosos que ocurren tras las paredes de un convento, cuando Alatriste es contratado para rescatar de allí a una joven novicia. En el azaroso y fascinante Madrid de Felipe IV, entre lances, tabernas, garitos, intrigas y estocadas, la aventura pondrá en juego la vida de los amigos del capitán, haciendo surgir del pasado los fantasmas de viejos enemigos: el pérfido secretario real Luis de Alquézar, el inquisidor fray Emilio Bocanegra y el siniestro espadachín italiano Gualterio Malatesta.
  libreriarofer | Aug 8, 2023 |
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  archivomorero | May 21, 2023 |
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The third swashbuckling adventure in the internationally acclaimed Captain Alatriste series. Fifteen-year-old Iñigo Balboa enlists to serve as his master's aide, and narrates their further adventures of swordplay and skirmishes, mutiny and wartime honor, as Captain Alatriste rejoins his Cartagena regiment to take part in the battles and siege of Breda. In Spain, Alatriste's nemesis, Luis de Alquézar, grows more powerful, as Iñigo's mysterious friend Angélica hints at some plans upon his return. Once again the exploits of the seventeenth-century mercenary will thrill and delight the legions of readers eager to cheer a hero for the ages.

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