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El capitán Alatriste
by Arturo Pérez-Reverte
Eagerly picked up from the shelves of a Granada airbnb and a happy companion piece to a later trip to Madrid. (While the novel is set in 1623, Madrid still preserves many of the plot's locations. Also, the book, the first part of a series, has apparently been popular enough that it was a catalyst for an eponymous restaurant half a block away from our eventual lodging in the capital. Murals were happily photographed.) The novel ,in which the author, at the time a respected Spanish war journalist and now an often translated novelist, sought to address a gap in historical writing about the Spanish Golden Age, stands to this reader as a Spanish answer to The Three Musqueteers. The book is clever storytelling but--perhaps too young adult-ish in its ambitions (in the wrong way that can imply)--pales by the comparison.