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Book Review
Oct. 17th, 2009 03:57 pmThe Cavalier in the Yellow Doublet
by Arturo Perez-Reverte
This is the fifth book in the Captain Alatriste series, and it's one of the best of them. Alatriste has an affair with a beautiful and popular actress, which leads him into court intrigue and enemies who are trying to maneuver and/or force him to be the fall guy in a plot to assassinate King Philip IV. This gets Alatriste and Inigo into situations even more dangerous than the Dutch battlefields of The Sun Over Breda. Angelica Alquezar, the Machiavellian young noblewoman Inigo loves, plays a significant role in the plot for the first time, proving to be dangerous, magnetic, and inscrutable.
The fact that the plot of The Cavalier in the Yellow Doublet is set off by and hinges around the theater underscores the book's thematic concern with the roles that people play in their lives, whether by choice or by happenstance.
by Arturo Perez-Reverte
This is the fifth book in the Captain Alatriste series, and it's one of the best of them. Alatriste has an affair with a beautiful and popular actress, which leads him into court intrigue and enemies who are trying to maneuver and/or force him to be the fall guy in a plot to assassinate King Philip IV. This gets Alatriste and Inigo into situations even more dangerous than the Dutch battlefields of The Sun Over Breda. Angelica Alquezar, the Machiavellian young noblewoman Inigo loves, plays a significant role in the plot for the first time, proving to be dangerous, magnetic, and inscrutable.
The fact that the plot of The Cavalier in the Yellow Doublet is set off by and hinges around the theater underscores the book's thematic concern with the roles that people play in their lives, whether by choice or by happenstance.
