[Las aventuras del capitán Alatriste 05] • Captain Alatriste - 05 - the Cavalier in the Yellow Doublet

From the acclaimed and bestselling author comes the fifth adventure of Captain Alatriste, [the brooding, charismatic hero of his wildly successful Spanish swashbuckling novels[ (The New York Times).

In the cosmopolitan world of seventeenth-century Madrid, with its posh theaters and gleaming palaces, Captain Alatriste and his protg, igo, are fish out of water. But the king and court are keeping Alatriste on retainer[he has proved useful in the past. As a veteran with no other source of income, Alatriste chooses to remain, even as his [employment[ brings him uncomfortably close to old enemies. igo, now a young man and veteran of the Hundred Years War, chooses to remain with his master and press his ill-fated romance with the beautiful but sinister Anglica de Alquzar. Alatriste, for his part, begins an affair with the famous[and famously beautiful[ actress Mara de Castro, and discovers that the competition for her favors may be much more dangerous than he'd bargained for, especially when Alatriste and igo become unwilling participants in a court conspiracy that could lead them both to the gallows.