The Sun Over Breda

The third swashbuckling adventure in the internationally acclaimed Captain Alatriste series. Fifteen-year-old I igo Balboa enlists to serve as his master's aide, and narrates their further adventures of swordplay and skirmishes, mutiny and wartime honor, as Captain Alatriste rejoins his Cartagena regiment to take part in the battles and siege of Breda. In Spain, Alatriste's nemesis, Luis de Alqu zar, grows more powerful, as I igo's mysterious friend Ang lica hints at some plans upon his return. Once again the exploits of the seventeenth-century mercenary will thrill and delight the legions of readers eager to cheer a hero for the ages.