The Cavalier in the Yellow Doublet Hardcover - 2009

by Arturo Perez-Reverte; Margaret Jull Costa (Translator)

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.