About this title: A desperate father hires Alatriste to rescue his daughter from a convent where a powerful priest is said to be using the girl as his personal concubine. 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.
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Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Phoenix
Date Published: 2006
ISBN-13:9780753821190ISBN:0753821192
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Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Phoenix (an Imprint of The Orion
Date Published: 2006
ISBN-13:9780753821190ISBN:0753821192
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Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Weidenfeld & Nicolson
Date Published: 2006
ISBN-13:9780297848639ISBN:0297848631
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Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Phoenix
Date Published: 2006
ISBN-13:9780753821190ISBN:0753821192
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Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Phoenix
Date Published: 2006
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Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Phoenix
Date Published: 2006
ISBN-13:9780753821190ISBN:0753821192
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Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Phoenix (an Imprint of The Orion
Date Published: 2006
ISBN-13:9780753821190ISBN:0753821192
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Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Weidenfeld & Nicolson
Date Published: 2006
ISBN-13:9780297851028ISBN:0297851020
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Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Phoenix
Date Published: 2006
ISBN-13:9780753821190ISBN:0753821192
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Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Phoenix
Date Published: 2006
ISBN-13:9780753821190ISBN:0753821192
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Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Weidenfeld & Nicolson
Date Published: 2006
ISBN-13:9780297848639ISBN:0297848631
Description: Very Good in Good jacket. Two small tears in corners of dustcover, otherwise brand new and unread. Next working day dispatch from the UK. Please contact us with any queries. read more
"I liked this book better than the first adventure of Captain Alatriste, but didn't like it as well as I've liked other books by this author. The plot concerns an attempt to rescue a young girl from a corrupt convent. The rescuers find that they have been betrayed and the narrator finds himself in the clutches of the Inquisition."
"Este es el mejor tomo de la serie del Capitán Alatriste... Para jóvenes lectores, a mi parecer, es lo mejor que consiguió Arturo Perez Reverte con respecto a esta serie de aventuras..."
"I undoubtedly give myself a problem when I read the second book of a series first. However, having previously read two other Arturo Pérez-Reverte novels, 'The Dumas Club' and 'The Flanders Panel', both 5-star stories, I at least have something to compare 'Purity of Blood' with.
As with the other stories, the plot moves briskly with vivid and explicit action sequences while the main intrigues are simmering away in the background. The first person narrative, coming from a 13 year old boy, is quite appropriate in order to effectively communicate the emotional duress of his period of imprisonment. One slight quibble about all this though is that one has to get used to the change in maturity levels between his descriptions of Captain Alatriste's adventures and his personal experiences; the latter making it feel one is reading a teenager adventure book. The prose is pleasingly lucid although there are a few repetitions of character descriptions and one will raise an eyebrow when encountering the odd F-word which just seems out of place, but these may only be translation issues.
While 'Purity of Blood' is not my favourite Pérez-Reverte story, somewhat due to the relative lack of mystery that I was expecting based on the other two novels, I did appreciate the numerous descriptions of 17th Century Spanish lifestyle supplemented by some very amusing poetry."
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