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The Purity of Blood: the Adventures of Captain Alatriste Free FREE THE PURITY OF BLOOD: THE ADVENTURES OF CAPTAIN ALATRISTE PDF Arturo Perez-Reverte | 288 pages | 20 Sep 2006 | Orion Publishing Co | 9780753821190 | English | London, United Kingdom Purity of Blood by Arturo Pérez-Reverte Hired to rescue a man's daughter from a convent where a powerful corrupt priest is forcing her to be his personal concubine, Alatriste finds himself thrust into a religious and political conspiracy with ties to the highest levels of the Inquisition. Read more Read less. Pre-order Books. Order now from our extensive selection of books coming soon with Pre-order Price Guarantee. If the Amazon. Shop now. Frequently bought together. Add both to Cart. These items are shipped from and sold by different sellers. Show details. Customers who bought this item also bought. Page 1 of 1 Start over Page 1 of 1. Previous page. Arturo Perez-Reverte. Usually dispatched within 4 to 5 days. 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This is the second little book some pages all told of the adventures of Captain Alatriste, the Spanish veteran soldier, as told by Inigo, his foster son. It has The Purity of Blood: The Adventures of Captain Alatriste of the qualities of the first episode, although it can be read separately from it. In addition to being a very entertaining and swashbuckling tale, it is also well-researched The story focuses this time on the Spanish Inquisition and clearly shows to what extent it had become a power in the land with even the King's Chief Minister, the very powerful, reform-minded and scheming Count soon to be Count-Duke Olivares wary of taking it on, although he is the ultimate target of its machinations. Almost all of the characters of the first episode are present in this one, including the dark Gualterio Malatesta, Alatriste's nemesis and, of course, Bocanegra, the Spanish Inquisitor in the role of a rather terrifying arch-villain. The story is built around the Inquisition's persecution of Jews in Spain, how it savagely enforced the Crown's ruling about "purity of blood" The Purity of Blood: The Adventures of Captain Alatriste family The Purity of Blood: The Adventures of Captain Alatriste by Jewish ancestors could claim to belong to the nobility and how it extracted confession from its "suspects. All this is shown remarkably well with the author's usual talent in weaving a fascinating, spectacular and grim adventure story where our heroes attempt to help an elderly noble and his two sons to rescue their daughter and sister, respectively. The attempt goes horribly wrong, with Inigo falling in the clutches of the Inquisition. I will stop here to avoid any spoilers. I will only mention that this one is just as exciting to read as the first The Purity of Blood: The Adventures of Captain Alatriste, with a similar mix of high politics and daily struggles to survive in a rather hostile environment. Well worth five stars for being simultaneously very entertaining and very educational, something that is rather rare. One person found this helpful. Another of Alatriste's hair-raising adventures. This time he finds himself embroiled with the Inquisition, as a result of an evil conspiracy involving high-ranking courtiers and fanatical priests. Will Alatriste's faithful servant perish during an auto-da-fe? I won't give away the ending of course, but I will say that this is, as always, superb reading. Really makes me want to visit the Taberna del Turco myself. This Captain Alatriste story has The Purity of Blood: The Adventures of Captain Alatriste wrong title. It should be, "Inigo Balboa Goes to Jail. Rather it is don Francisco de Quevedo, who, like in an old oater western, literally rides into Madrid at the last second to save the boy from being burned alive at the hands of the hateful, fanatical, evil villains of the Inquisition, focused on Jews and "heretics" in all its disgusting, holocaust mentality and conduct. And, once again as in other Alatriste novels, the Captain, except for one thrilling knife fight in an alley, does little to move the story forward or contribute to the resolution The Purity of Blood: The Adventures of Captain Alatriste the dilemma. In fact, his several errors led to difficult complications for The Purity of Blood: The Adventures of Captain Alatriste the good guys. As for bravery, year old Inigo -- alone -- gets the Oscar. There are no other nominees. Alatriste is shown as hardly an able swordsman, hardly smart enough to foresee catastrophe, and so enamored with Inigo as to make mistake after mistake in seeking the boy's release from prison. I remain puzzled as to the source of Alatriste's reputation as an ideal combatant. While the Captain, Inigo, de Quevedo and others in the large cast of players who colorfully populate the tale, "Purity of Blood" is a novel not about them, but actually about the Spanish Inquisition in the early 's. The book furthers Perez-Reverte's long-lasting, continuing strong commentary about the demise of Spanish influence and culture, as it took a slippery slope ride toward oblivion. True to his career-long theme and style as a novelist, Perez-Reverte does not disappoint The Purity of Blood: The Adventures of Captain Alatriste in his scathing and vicious telling all well-deserved, of course, even if only in a novel of the corrupt, dastardly Catholic Church, its Inquisition, and the impotence, complicity and incompetence of the then-ruling Spanish officials. I don't know if Perez-Reverte simply -- for his own reasons -- mourns The Purity of Blood: The Adventures of Captain Alatriste loss of the real Spain back then or if he just delights in a furious indictment of Spain's embarrassing history of cruelty and stupidity. Nonetheless, this theme of anti-Spanish government and anti-Church everything defines all of his novels. He writes with gusto and believability even in novel format from his heart and gut. He's a pleasure to read, of course. Page And even worse are those who believe they are justified by their God And worst of all is the person who acts as exegete of The Word - whether it be from the Talmud, the Bible, the Koran, or any other book already written or yet to come Never trust a man who reads only one book. I found this flaw distracting and, for me, it was a major obstacle to my complete enjoyment of the book. There are other literary techniques which Perez-Reverte could have employed to allow the story to have its first-person feel without pretending that the boy had seen and heard all that he did not and could not have to maintain his phantom role as narrator. It just didn't make sense that Inigo remained the narrator throughout the novel. True to course, there are many memorable lines Page 69, " Perez- Reverte is sometimes a tough read with his wide-ranging vocabulary and big sweep of intellectual-historical topics, but always worth it - with dictionary in hand or Wikipedia at the ready. The quoted poetry, however, is always a bit much for my tastes. Nonetheless, it is a good story, and the last half moves quickly. It's not his greatest story or writing. I am a big fan and Arturo Perez-Reverte. He is one of my favorite contemporary authors. He is brilliant, erudite and a wonderful writer. I will read him anytime, anywhere, always smiling at his anti-Catholic Church rantings and ravings and his solemn melancholy retrospective at a once-great Spain sadly lost long, long ago. While I enjoyed the book I didn't enjoy it as much as Captain Alatriste. The ending seemed a little abrupt as if Perez-Reverte had a page limit and had to get the story over with a little too soon. Purity of Blood starts off in a thrilling fashion with Captain Alatriste hired to rescue a young woman from a corrupt convent in 17th century Spain. It goes along nicely for awhile but then begins to drag at the end. The ending is rather quick and not much of a payoff. The historical fiction elements add some appeal but cannot overcome the ending. However, I am looking forward to future books as this is the second of a purported seven book series. Purity of Blood, this second novel in a series of adventures starring Captain Alatriste and his young squire, Inigo, picks up shortly after the first novel leaves off. In this tale, the Captain is brought into a scheme to help a father rescue his daughter from a convent where she is being taken advantage of by an amorous priest. The title of this novel comes from the fact that at this time in Spain it was crucially important to be of "old Christian blood.
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