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Books : Mystery & Thrillers : Authors, A-Z : ( P ) : Perez-Reverte, Arturo
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#1 International Bestseller
Lucas Corso is a book detective, a mercenary hired to hunt down rare editions for wealthy and unscrupulous clients. When a well-known bibliophile is found hanged, leaving behind part of the original manuscript of Alexandre Dumas's The Three Musketeers, Corso is brought in to authenticate the fragment. He is soon drawn into a swirling plot involving devil worship, occult practices, and swashbuckling derring-do among a cast of characters bearing a suspicious resemblance to those of Dumas's masterpiece. Aided by a mysterious beauty named after a Conan Doyle heroine, Corso travels from Madrid to Toledo to Paris in pursuit of a sinister and seemingly omniscient killer.
Part mystery, part puzzle, part witty intertextual game, The Club Dumas is a wholly original intellectual thriller by the author of The Flanders Panel and The Seville Communion.
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Arturo Pérez-Reverte is one of the most beloved writers in the world. His bestselling novels, including The Club Dumas and The Queen of the South, have been published in fifty countries and translated into twenty-eight languages. Now, with The Adventures of Captain Alatriste, he delivers a magnificent series, already a million-copy bestseller in Spain, that chronicles the heroic adventures of a seventeenth-century swordsman.
In Purity of Blood, the second novel in the series, the courageous Alatriste is considering rejoining his old regiment to fight in Breda-but his blade leads him to another adventure. A desperate father hires him to rescue his daughter from a convent where a powerful priest is said to be using the girl as his personal concubine. The father has been prevented from legal recourse because the priest has threatened to reveal that the man's family is "not of pure blood"-is, in fact, of Jewish descent -which will all but destroy the family name. Alatriste agrees to help, and several nights later, under the cloak of darkness, a rescue attempt is made.
But soon Alatriste discovers that he has become part of a religious and political conspiracy that leads all the way to the highest levels of the Inquisition. When a date is set to burn the man's daughter at the stake, Captain Alatriste springs into action -sword first-setting off a series of twists and turns that will keep readers riveted to the page.
Translation by Margaret Sayers Peden
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Derived from factual evidence, Pérez-Reverte brings us a surprising novel with an interesting twist. This time, the hero is a woman named Teresa Mendoza who is nicknamed by journalists as "The Queen of the South" and "The Mexican" by the authorities of three continents.Teresa narrates her story as it unfolds in Mexico over twelve years ago when she was the girlfriend of a pilot employed by drug lords. She did not know how to read nor write, however, after her boyfriend is murdered, she began creating an empire from nothing in the male-dominated world of drug trafficking. Henceforth, the journey begins as she grows her business by conducting deals with the mafias from Spain, France, Italy and Russia.
Descripción en Español:
La más esperada novela de Arturo Pérez-Reverte podría no haber llegado nunca a las librerías. La apasionante historia con la que ratifica sus innegables dotes literarias y un magistral dominio de las técnicas narrativas quizá pudiera haberse resumido en tres minutos de música y palabras. Entonces se habría convertido en uno de los muchos corridos que cantan las "gestas" de los narcotraficantes mexicanos. Pero el escritor español más aclamado dentro y fuera de las fronteras españolas decidió alumbrar una obra inolvidable y original: un corrido de papel impreso y quinientas páginas donde relata las aventuras de una mujer legendaria: Teresa Mendoza, apodada la Reina del Sur por los periodistas y la Mejicana por los cuerpos de seguridad de tres continentes.
Al ritmo de esta peculiar canción, los lectores se van a embarcar en un viaje de ida y vuelta que dura doce años y que comienza en Culiacán, ciudad del estado mexicano de Sinaloa donde morir con violencia es morir de muerte natural, cuando la hasta entonces insignificante novia de un piloto a sueldo del cártel de Juárez se entera de que han asesinado a su hombre. Antes de saldar viejas cuentas, esta mujer va a emprender una arriesgada y fulgurante ascensión: levantará un imperio clandestino que convertirá el Estrecho de Gibraltar en la gran puerta de entrada de cocaína para el sur de Europa.
Para seguir los pasos de Teresa Mendoza y, sobre todo, para averiguar los misterios que la rodean, Arturo Pérez-Reverte ha trazado dos sendas narrativas que se alternan y convergen.
En una de ellas, se relata cronológicamente la peligrosa y fascinante vida de la protagonista; para conseguirlo, Arturo Pérez-Reverte ha superado dos retos: adoptar el punto de vista narrativo de una mujer y dotarla de una voz única, ya que Teresa Mendoza al principio apenas sabe leer y además se expresa en argot sinaloense.
En la otra, un escritor cuyo nombre nunca sabremos –aunque revele: "Ya no soy reportero. Ahora me lo invento todo y no bajo de las cuatrocientas páginas" – sigue a lo largo de ocho meses las huellas dejadas en doce años por Teresa Mendoza en México, el Norte de África y el Sur de España. Ese narrador, tras hablar con quienes la conocieron, odiaron y quisieron, es quien asegura que ha escrito un corrido.
Esta estructura narrativa, dividida en 17 capítulos encabezados por un título de canción, en modo alguno es gratuita. Al contrario, permite que el lector quede atrapado por el innegable interés que tienen las aventuras del personaje retratado –Teresa Mendoza es una heroína tan poco convencional como atractiva– y por las eficaces pesquisas que efectúa el narrador para retratarlo.
Gracias a esta doble perspectiva y a una ingente y precisa labor de documentación, Arturo Pérez-Reverte nos sumerge en un mundo que gira según reglas propias e impenetrables, donde hay traidores y corruptos a los dos márgenes de la justicia y donde la única ley que no se viola es la de la oferta y la demanda: el mundo de los narcotraficantes. Y, eso sí, sin caer en la tentación de caer en meras descripciones, sino poniendo al servicio de la trama, de una acción en muchos casos trepidante, sus conocimientos sobre los mercaderes de droga.
Pérez-Reverte –que para escribir esta
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Guero Davila is a pilot engaged in drug-smuggling for the local cartels. Teresa Mendoza is his girlfriend, a typical narco's morra, quiet, doting, submissive. But then Guero's caught playing both sides and in Sinaloa that means death. Teresa finds herself alone, terrified, friendless and running to save her life, carrying nothing but a gym bag containing a pistol and a notebook that she has been forbidden to read. Forced to leave Mexico, she flees to the Spanish city of Melilla where she meets Santiago Fisterra, a Galician involved in trafficking hashish across the Strait of Gibraltar. When Santiago's partner is captured, it is Teresa who steps in to take his place. Now Teresa has plunged into the dark and ugly world that once claimed Guero's life - and she's about to get in deeper...
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Lucas Corso is a bibliophile mercenary in the middle of two searches. He needs to prove if a manuscript of The Three Musketeers is genuine. He must also find the solution to the enigma of a diabolic book, burned at the printers in 1667 by the Holy office and condemned by the Vatican; only two other copies are known. The stories intermingle and result in a page-turning thriller distinctive of Perez Reverte s writing. The book was taken to the big screen in a movie titled The Ninth Gate by renowned director Roman Polanski.Description in Spanish
Descifrar el misterio de un libro que invoca al demonio, del que sólo quedan tres ejemplares en el mundo, se convirtió para Lucas Corso, comprador de libros antiguos por encargo, en peligrosa aventura. Pero por si esto fuera poco, un capÃtulo manuscrito de los tres mosqueteros de Alejandro Dumas entra en escena y se entremezclan historias para dar origen a un apasionante thriller al mejor estilo de Arturo Pérez-Reverte. "El club Dumas" (1993), una de las novelas más emblemáticas del autor, constituye un modelo ejemplar de utilización de los más genuinos ingredientes de la novela de intriga, de investigación criminal, ambientación histórica y ficción culturalista, además de ser un homenaje al maestro del folletÃn decimonónico, Alejandro Dumas. Esta novela ha sido llevada a la gran pantalla por Roman Polanski con el tÃtulo "La novena puerta".
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Diego Alatriste is a swordsman in a dangerous and corrupt seventeenth-century Spain, where his services are requested to settle debts or restore a family's reputation. When he is hired by the Holy Inquisition to kill mysterious travelers, guests of British ambassador, he knows he is in serious trouble.A hard-to-put-down story.
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In this second part, a woman has been found strangled in front of a local church. On her lap, a bag full of coins and a note “For masses for her soul” is found. In a nearby convent for young society ladies, the chaplain is having “unconventional” encounters with his novices. Captain Alatriste will soon discover how these two facts are connected by an entangled net of power, faith, and death. Description in Spanish: 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 ala 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.
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Enlisted as aide of Capitan Alatriste in the Spanish regiments, Inigo de Balboa tries to survive in a world where he needs to get very close to his enemy in order to kill him with his sword. He witnesses a historic moment, the surrender of Breda, that he would retell later to his friend Velazquez for famous painting.
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This long awaited fifth installment of the famous adventures of Capitan Alatriste is set in an aristocratic love affair between Alatriste and MarÃa de Castro, the most beautiful and famous actress of the Golden Era who is also being courted by Felipe IV. Action, history and adventure come together in these unforgettable pages of danger and excitement. Description in Spanish: “Don Francisco de Quevedo me dirigió una mirada que interpreté como era debido, pues fui detrás del capitán Alatriste. AvÃsame si hay problemas, habÃan dicho sus ojos tras los lentes quevedescos. Dos aceros hacen más papel que uno. Y asÃ, consciente de mi responsabilidad, acomodé la daga de misericordia que llevaba atravesada al cinto y fui en pos de mi amo, discreto como un ratón, confiando en que esta vez pudiéramos terminar la comedia sin estocadas y en paz, pues habrÃa sido bellaca afrenta estropearle el estreno a Tirso de Molina. Yo estaba lejos de imaginar hasta qué punto la bellÃsima actriz MarÃa de Castro iba a complicar mi vida y la del capitán, poniéndonos a ambos en gravÃsimo peligro…”.
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A secret that could have changed the history of Europe is hidden in the chess game depicted in a fifteenth-century painting. Five centuries later, a young art expert, a gay antiquarian, and a peculiar chess player team up to unveil the mystery. They are all pieces in a diabolic chess game in which pieces are taken and players are murdered. "Paradoxes and puzzles abound. A sleek, sophisticated, madly clever, chamber mystery about chess, life, and art."—The New York Times Book Review
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A nautical chart can be much more than an indispensable instrument to navigate from one place to another; it is an etching, a page from history, and sometimes even an adventure novel.Just published by Alfaguara, La carta esférica by Arturo Pérez-Reverte is the story of a sailor without a ship, exiled from the ocean, who meets a woman who returns to him the adventure of the sea.
Never have the ocean and its history, the science of navigation, adventure and mystery, been combined in such an extraordinary manner as is done in this novel. Only Arturo Pérez-Reverte could have accomplished this.
Blurb in Spanish:
Un marino sin barco, desterrado del mar, conoce a una extraña mujer que posee, tal sin saberlo, respuestas a preguntas que ciertos hombres se hacen desde hace siglos.Nunca el mar y la Historia, la ciencia de la navegación, la aventura y el misterio, se habían combinado de modo tan extraodinario en una novela, como en La carta esférica. De Melville a Stevenson y Conrad, de Homero a Patrick O'Brian, toda la gran literatura escrita sobre el mar late en las páginas de esta historia fascinante, e inolvidable.
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A hacker that breaks into the Vatican computers; a baroque church that kills to defend itself; a beautiful young aristocrat from Seville; a handsome priest who is also an undercover agent; a jealous banker and his gambler secretary, these are the characters of a wild, enigmatic plot that has the reader guessing.
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When a well-known bibliophile is found hanged, Lucas Corso is brought in to authenticate a fragment of a manuscript purported to be "The Three Musketeers." He is soon drawn into a swirling plot involving devil worship, occult practices, and a swashbuckling cast that bears a suspicious resemblance to those in the famous work.
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