Purity of Blood

Title: Purity of Blood
Author: Arturo Perez-Reverte
F: 1702710
ISBN: 9780399153204
Publisher: Putnam Adult
Published: 2006
Binding: Hardcover
Language: English
Edition: First Edition
Number of Pages: 267
Section: Fiction | Historical | General
Condition Note: Clean, unmarked copy with some edge wear. Good binding. Dust jacket included if issued with one. We ship in recyclable American-made mailers. 100% money-back guarantee on all orders.
Publisher Description: Arturo P?rez-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