THE SUN OVER BREDA

Arturo Perez-Reverte has enthralled readers and critics around the globewith his Captain Alatriste series. Having sold four and a half millioncopies to date in the Spanish-speaking world, the series has madePerez-Reverte a literary superstar and his fictional seventeenth-centurymercenary a national icon. And the appeal of Perez-Reverte's adventurerand his exploits continues to grow, as evidenced by the extraordinaryreception for the first two translated volumes in the series-CaptainAlatriste and Purity of Blood. And now, in The Sun over Breda,Perez-Reverte continues his thrilling chronicle of the swordsman-for-hire,as Captain Alatriste takes up his blade and rejoins his elite Cartagenaregiment as they take part in the battles and siege of Breda.Fifteen-year-old I?igo Balboa enlists to serve as his master's aide, andnarrates their further adventures of swordplay and skirmishes, of mutinyand wartime honor. And, back in Spain, Alatriste's nemesis Luis deAlquezar grows more powerful, as I?igo's mysterious friend Angelica hintsat some plans upon his return