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16/1/2006
"He has been known to flirt with higher literary flights, notably in The
Club Dumas, but in his hardboiled, mordantly funny,
unapologetically entertaining Captain Alatriste series (of
which this is the second volume), Pérez-Reverte firmly buckles on his
swash and swaggers into the muddy, bloody streets of 17th century
Madrid."
Time 16 de enero de 2006
"Intelligent exciting historical swashbucklers...With writing rich in
the minutiae of 17th-century Madrid life and interspersed with poetry,
the author is clearly having a ball and the reader can join with him."
Waterstones Quarterly
"Purity of Blood is the latest in a line of utterly unputdownable
novels by Arturo Pérez-Reverte in which he has finessed a storytelling
tradition stretching back to his great literary predecessors...This
latest book is brimming with all the panache of previous novels by the
writer and with even more confidence...This is glorious stuff, the kind
of book to remind us how exhilarating old-fashioned adventure writing
can be."
Daily Express
"What is impressive is how much of Spain the author manages to pack
into a short novel...offers glimpses of artistic feuds and vivid sketches
of street life. This is fiction that can be enjoyed on several levels:
as a poignant evocation of doomed imperial splendour; as a clever
literary game in which historical and invented figures rub shoulders; as
a parable about racism past and present; or as a simple tale of
swashbuckling derring-do."
The Times
"Vivid depictions of the Inquisition and its public theatre of auto de
fe...Alatriste emerges as an existentialist, fighting not just for money
but because "there is no choice but to fight". In other words, all
against one, and one against all: a noir swordsman for our times"
Times Literary Supplement