The adventurous and risky literary journey that Arturo Pérez-Reverte (Cartagena, 1951) embarked on in 1996 to narrate the years of the heyday and incipient decline of the Spanish Empire,
at the height of the Golden Age, through the eyes of the soldier Diego Alatriste, has a new installment, after 14 years of silence, ‘Misión en Paris’, takes the protagonist on a remarkable and risky mission in the France of the powerful Cardinal Richelieu.
The book should not disappoint anyone. It is a prodigious tale in which Pérez-Reverte masterfully demonstrates his passion for adventure novels with all the usual ingredients—duels, challenges, swashbuckling adventures—where we find Alatriste together and in conflict with the legendary three musketeers and D'Artagnan, Cardinal Richelieu, the French king Louis XIII, and our universal Francisco de Quevedo.
