The Cavalier in the Yellow Doublet Hardcover - 2009

by Perez-Reverte, Arturo

From the acclaimed and bestsellingauthor comes the fifth adventure ofCaptain Alatriste, "the brooding,charismatic hero of his wildlysuccessful Spanish swashbucklingnovels" (The New York Times).

In the cosmopolitan world of seventeenth-century Madrid,with its posh theaters and gleaming palaces, Captain Alatristeand his protégé, Íñigo, are fish out of water. But theking and court are keeping Alatriste on retainer-he has proveduseful in the past. As a veteran with no other source of income,Alatriste chooses to remain, even as his "employment" bringshim uncomfortably close to old enemies. Íñigo, now a youngman and veteran of the Hundred Years War, chooses to remainwith his master and press his ill-fated romance with the beautifulbut sinister Angélica de Alquézar. Alatriste, for his part,begins an affair with the famous-and famously beautiful-actress María de Castro, and discovers that the competition forher favors may be much more dangerous than he'd bargainedfor, especially when Alatriste and Íñigo become unwilling participantsin a court conspiracy that could lead them both to thegallows.