P?rez-Reverte, Arturo

??igo de Balboa, Captain Alatriste's fourteen-year-old page, accompanies the captain to the Dutch city of Breda, to wage war and participate in the Spanish siege against the city, in the name of King Phillip IV and Catholicism.

Captain Diego Alatriste along with his two comrades Sebastian Copons and Moor Gurriato are ordered to intervene against a crucial Spanish crown conspiracy, an assassination during Christmas Mass in Venice.

Captain Alatriste embarks upon a dangerous mission in Seville where he is charged along with his men for a plot involving contrab and gold from the Spanish galleons returning from the Indies.

Captain Alatriste agrees to help a desperate father rescue his daughter from a convent where she is being used as a personal concubine by a powerful priest, but his efforts soon place him in the middle of a religious and political conspiracy that leads to the highest levels of the Inquisition.

Follows the exploits of Captain Diego Alatriste through the eyes of a privateer serving with Alatriste aboard his ship.

Set in seventeenth-century Spain, swordsman Diego Alatriste is hired out by the Holy Inquisition to kill guests of the British Ambassador.

Seventeenth-century swordsman Captain Alatriste, continues his adventures at the court of Spain's King Felipe IV in Madrid, where he becomes involved with a beautiful actress, and foils an assassination plot against the monarch.

In seventeenth-century Madrid, freelancing swordsman Diego Alatriste, a captain forced into retirement by an injury in the Flemish wars, is hired to kill two mysterious Englishmen but, at the secret request of one of his employers, only wounds them, unaware that their survival will shape the future of his country and of Europe.

Captain Diego Alatriste, having taken a job as a mercenary aboard a Spanish galleon, engages in bloody battles while traveling to the empire's outposts, and deals with his seventeen-year-old prot?g? ??igo's desire to leave his side and seek his own fortune.

Teresa Mendoza, girlfriend of notorious drug running pilot Guero Davila, must run for her life when she learns Davila has been killed, and each of her successive experiences and lovers gives her another piece of the puzzle that eventually allows her to claim leadership of one of the Mediterranean's biggest drug rings.