Arturo Perez-Reverte
17 books 1 series
Arturo Pérez-Reverte is a Spanish novelist and journalist who spent 21 years as a war correspondent for RTVE, from 1973 to 1994. A first novel, El húsar, set in the Napoleonic Wars, appeared in 1986. The catalogue here begins with The Club Dumas in 1993, also published as The Dumas Club and as The Ninth Gate, and reaches The Final Problem in 2026. Captain Alatriste, a swordsman, anchors the adventure series that carried the name beyond Spain, running from Captain Alatriste in 1996 through Purity of Blood, The Sun Over Breda and The King's Gold. Rare books, collectors and antiquarians recur as subjects. The Royal Spanish Academy elected Pérez-Reverte a member in 2003.