Miguel Hernandez
Miguel Hernandez
La Reina del Sur / The Queen of the South
La Reina del Sur / The Queen of the South
The Club Dumas
#1 International Bestseller'A thriller of marvelous intricacy' (The New York Times Book Review), The Club Dumas is a provocative literary thriller that playfully pays tribute to classic tales of mystery and adventure.Lucas Corso is a book detective, a middle-aged mercenary hired to hunt down rare editions for wealthy and unscrupulous clients. When a well-known bibliophile is found dead, 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 for a Conan Doyle heroine, Corso travels from Madrid to Toledo to Paris on the killer's trail in this twisty intellectual romp through the book world.'Erudite, funny, loopy, brilliant...action-adventure spied with dollops of
Sun Over Breda
The third in the bestselling Captain Alatriste series. Flanders, 1625. After his tussles with the Inquisition and the intrigue of the Spanish court, Captain Alatriste has returned to the mud and desperation of the long war in Flanders. This is Iñi...
What We Become
'P rez-Reverte summons the romantic spirit of an old black-and-white movie: impossibly glamorous, undeniably wistful.' - Kirkus Reviews (starred review) 'An intoxicating entertainment, pulsing with life.'-- Booklist (starred review) 'Sparkling with witty dialogue, this elegantly translated thriller is enthusiastically recommended to sophisticated readers and those who wish to be.' - Library Journal (starred review)In 1928, aboard the Cap Polonio--a lavish transatlantic cruise ship bound for Buenos Aires--Max Costa locks eyes with Mecha Inzunza across the first-class ballroom. They are an unlikely match. He is a thief, sleek and refined, hired to dance with unaccompanied passengers. She is the elegant wife of an accomplished composer, accustomed only to luxury. But as they embrace in a fiery tango, a steamy and dangerous love affair ignites--following them from the ship's gentle sways in the Atlantic night to the seedy decadence of Buenos Aires. Yet as quickly as their affair begins,
Captain Alatriste
A thrilling,swashbuckling adventure series starring the Spanish D'Artagnan Captain Alatriste is a swordsman for hire in Spain at a timewhen Court intrigue is high and the decadent young king has dragged the countryinto a series of disastrous wars....
Siege
WINNER OF THE CWA INTERNATIONAL DAGGER 2014 Cádiz, 1811. While the city is under siege from the marauding French army, an even greater menace is lurking within the city walls: a serial killer is on the loose, flaying young women to death. Each of ...
Man In The Yellow Doublet
Captain Alatriste returns in a swashbuckling tale of intrigue, romance and regicide. Captain Alatriste's affair with the beautiful actress Maria de Castro is rankling not only his long-term mistress but also the King of Spain. With loyal companion...
King's Gold
In this fourth instalment, Captain Alatriste becomes involved in a mission to save the King of Spain's gold... Swashbuckling adventure and high octane action. The year is 1626, and a battle-weary Captain Alatriste and his companions sail home from...
Queen of the South
Güero Dávila 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 Güero's caught playing both sides and in Sinaloa that means death. Teresa finds...
The Fencing Master
The unstoppable thrust is the arcane fencing technique known only by Don Jaime--and the deadly maneuver that a beautiful young woman wants him to teach her.What begins as a rather bold request leads Don Jaime into the shadowy politics and violence of mid-nineteenth-century Madrid.
Pirates of the Levant
Captain Alatriste's latest adventure - a story of skirmishes, privateers, boarded ships, swords and sackings. 'This was a time where Spain was revered, feared and hated in the easterly seas; where the devil had no colour, no name and no flag, and ...
Purity of Blood
The second 'Captain Alatriste' novel, from a series which has sold 4 million copies worldwide A woman has been found in a sedan chair in front of a church, strangled. In her hand is a pouch containing fifty escudos and a handwritten - but unsigned...
El problema final
El problema final
The Nautical Chart
Coy is a sailor without a ship.T nger Soto is a woman with an obsession to find the Dei Gloria, a ship sunk during the seventeenth century, and El Piloto is an old man with the sailboat on which all three set out to seek their fortune together. Or do they?
Misión En París / Mission in Paris
VUELVE EL CAPIT N ALATRISTE La nueva y esperada entrega de la serie de novelas de aventuras que cambi la forma de leer y entender el Siglo de Oro «Me gusta P rez-Reverte, me recuerda a Dumas y Salgari . -Umberto Eco «Sonaba la medianoche en los relojes de Par s cuando entraron por la puerta de Saint-Jacques cuatro jinetes tan seguros de s mismos como el trote firme de sus caballos . Es medianoche. igo Balboa, que forma parte de los Correos Reales del rey cat lico, aguarda expectante la llegada del capit n Alatriste, de Francisco de Quevedo y de Sebasti n Copons a Par s, donde se encuentra para entregar unos despachos al conde de Guadalmedina. Hace casi un a o que no se re nen, cuando acab la arriesgada encomienda que tuvieron que afrontar en Venecia. Son tiempos complejos para Francia: desde hace unos meses, los hugonotes de La Rochela, con apoyo ingl s, est n viviendo un duro asedio por parte de las fuerzas francesas a las rdenes del cardenal Richelieu. Por mediaci n de Quevedo,
Painter Of Battles
A compelling tale of art, love and war... A man lives alone in a watchtower by the sea. On the circular walls of the tower he is painting a grand mural - the timeless landscape of a battle. He is a former war photographer, and the painting is his ...
The Flanders Panel
A fifteenth-century painting by a Flemish master is about to be auctioned when Julia, a young art restorer, discovers a peculiar inscription hidden in a corner: Who killed the knight? In the painting, the Duke of Flanders and his knight are locked in a game of chess, and a dark lady lurks mysteriously in the background. Julia is determined to solve the five-hundred-year-old murder, but as she begins to look for clues, several of her friends in the art world are brutally murdered in quick succession. Messages left with the bodies suggest a crucial connection between the chess game in the painting, the knight's murder, the sordid underside of the contemporary art world, and the latest deaths. Just when all of the players in the mystery seem to be pawns themselves, events race toward a shocking conclusion. A thriller like no other, The Flanders Panel presents a tantalizing puzzle for any connoisseur of mystery, chess, art, and history.
La isla de la mujer dormida
Una novela de mar, amor y aventuras en el Egeo durante los años de la Guerra Civil española Buscaba la boca del hombre con la suya, húmeda de sal.—¿Tienes frío? —preguntó él.—No, no… Tengo miedo.—¿A qué?—A cuando te hayas ido y esto se borre de mi memoria.Presionó contra él su cuerpo goteante; y Jordán, mojada la ropa, la acogió entre los brazos estrechándola muy fuerte.—Maldito seas, capitán Mihalis —susurró ella de pronto.Tardó él un momento en comprender.—Sí —dijo al fin.Alzó el rostro para contemplar la bóveda de estrellas, que parecía haber descendido para instalarse en torno a los dos y su abrazo, envolviéndolos hasta el final de los tiempos. Como si estuvieran solos en la última noche del mundo.
Dumas Club
A well-know bibliophile is found hanged days after selling a rare manuscript of Alexander Dumas's classic, The Three Musketeers. Across Madrid, Spain's wealthiest book dealer has finally laid his hands on a 17th-century manual for summoning the de...