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{{quote|''"He was not the most honest of men, nor the most pious one, but he was a brave man."''|'''Íñigo de Balboa''', ''The Adventures of Captain Alatriste''}}

''The Adventures of Captain Alatriste'' is a series of novels written by Arturo Pérez-Reverte starring a Spanish soldier-turned-mercenary-turned-sword-for-hire, the titular Diego Alatriste y Tenorio (who was never an actual Captain in the Army, [[Non-Indicative Name|but was called that way]]). Alatriste is a veteran of the [[Eighty Years War|Flanders War]] that lives badly in 17th-century Europe, looking for shady jobs and sometimes being lead to international conspiracies involving the Spanish Crown and the Inquisition. At the same time, Alatriste trains a squire, Íñigo de Balboa, the orphan child of an old friend; Íñigo serves as the narrator of the story. The series includes adventures and noir in a well-researched historical setting.

''The Adventures of Captain Alatriste'' is a series of novels written by Arturo Pérez-Reverte starring a Spanish soldier-turned-mercenary-turned-sword-for-hire, the titular Diego Alatriste y Tenorio (who was never an actual Captain in the Army, [[Non-Indicative Name|but was called that way]]). Alatriste is a veteran of the [[Eighty Years' War|Flanders War]] that lives badly in 17th-century Europe, looking for shady jobs and sometimes being lead to international conspiracies involving the Spanish Crown and the Inquisition. At the same time, Alatriste trains a squire, Íñigo de Balboa, the orphan child of an old friend; Íñigo serves as the narrator of the story. The series includes adventures and noir in a well-researched historical setting.

Seven books have been published so far, with two more in the making:

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* ''Mission in Paris'' (unreleased): Presumed to be set against the backdrop of the 1643 Battle of Rocroi {{spoiler|and culminate with Alatriste's death}}

There is also a movie, starring [[Viggo Mortensen]], that tries to condense the nine plots all at once.

* [[Aristocrats Are Evil]]: And the lower nobles the worst of all. The Count of Guadalmedina is an exception.

* [[Badass Mustache]]: Just look at the image, damn it!

* [[Badass Spaniard]]

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* [[Deliberate Values Dissonance]]: Someone insulted you? Kill him! You think someone insulted you? Kill him! You ''pretend'' someone insulted you because someone else paid you to kill the first someone? ''¡No queda sino batirnos!''

* [[Edutainment Show]]: The series was created by the author to teach his teen daughter about the Spanish Golden Age, with each book being devoted to one aspect of it. In the published books, these are respectively Politics, Religion, the Flanders War, Economics, Theatre, the low-scale [[Forever War]] against the Turks in the Mediterranean and the long time love/hate relationship between Spain and the Republic of Venice.

* [[Eighty Years War]]

* [[Eighty Years' War]]

* [[Evil Counterpart]]: Gualterio Malatesta is basically Alatriste without the [[Screw the Money, I Have Rules]] part.

* [[Famous Ancestor]]: A joke in the later books reveals that Alatriste is a grand-nephew of [[Don Juan|Don Juan Tenorio]] (the author had in fact chosen Tenorio as Alatriste's mother's family name in homage to Don Juan, when he was writing the first book).