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    The Pirates of the Levant

    Written by Arturo Pérez-Reverte

    Narrated by Dave John

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    About this audiobook

    Accompanied by his faithful companion Inigo, Alatriste joins a Spanish galleon and sets sail from Naples towards the east on a journey that will take them to Melilla, Oran, and finally Malta where they must struggle against the Turk. On board they will have many adventures, including an encounter with The Moor Gurriato. Now seventeen, Inigo is still in love with Angelica but will wisdom come with age and experience?
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherW. F. Howes Ltd
    Release dateDec 1, 2010
    ISBN9781407465265
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    The Pirates of the Levant
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    Arturo Pérez-Reverte

    ARTURO PEREZ-REVERTE is the award-winning author of many critically acclaimed novels, including The Club Dumas, The Flanders Panel, and the Captain Alatriste series. A retired war journalist, he lives in Madrid and is a member of the Royal Spanish Academy.

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    • 3/5
      Picked this up because it was set in the Levant. I didn't realise that it was 6th in a series and hardly noticed that it was originally Spanish. And I really enjoyed the half I read. The historical background to the Jewish and particularly Moorish expulsions from Spain was riveting and the picture of the diverse inhabitants and seamen around the Mediterranean was equally interesting. I also enjoyed the characters. I'm not quite sure why I abandoned it half way through - perhaps there was not enough story to ease me through the muddy bloody situations.

      I've been persuaded to go on reading......

      ...... and very glad I did. The book changed gear in the second half and complemented the first half very well. The first person narrative of the young hero is mixed with some third party view of Captain Alatriste and combination gives a freshness to the writing. Have another half a star.
    • 3/5
      This was an action-packed novel translated into English from Spanish. There was not a lot of plotline though. The story read like a sailor's journal more than a novel. The story just moved from event to event without a true beginning, middle, and end. But, there were no dull moments because those events were very exciting.
    • 3/5
      I picked up this book off the library's New Books shelves without having read any of the earlier books in the series. The writing hooked me, and I liked the characters, too, but I started to get bogged down in the middle. The story suffers from a lack over-arching plot -- it appears to be just one escapade after another. Still, overall I enjoyed it and will probably look for more Perez-Reverte books to read in the future.
    • 5/5
      Sixth in the Captain Alatriste series set in early 17th century Spain.As usual, Perez-Reverte, through the medium of the professional swordsman/soldier, Captain Alatriste, and his 17 year old protogé, Íñigo Balboa, explores yet another aspect of early 17th century Spain, that of its colonies in the Levant. Alatriste and Íñigo have signed on as soldiers (marines, really) in the galleys, Spain’s navy. They are to patrol the Levant, harassing and destroying Turkish, English and other enemy shipping. While cannon were employed on naval ships, Spain, with its history tied to its infantry and the hidalgo scorn for sailors, did not do so as extensively as the British. Indeed, Íñigo, in a truly funny passage, sneers at the English for hiding behind their canon, cowards that they are. The difference shows up in the Aubrey/Maturin novels of the Napoleonic sea warfare; the Spanish are considered courageous sailors, but can’t point a gun to hit the broad side of a barn.While Alatriste, Íñigo, and afriends have many an adventure, teh sub-plot--what was the Spanish point of view in ejecting the Moors from Spain, what happened to the converted Moors--Moriscos--and the empire’s relations with its North 
African colonies in what is now Morocco and Algiers--is fascinating, as is usual in a Perez-Reverte novel of this period.The book culminates with the Battle of the Escanerlu Channel, near Malta, in what is not only a wonderfully written action-adventure of its type Perez-Reverte does nto have to take a back seat to such as O’Brian or Forester for his description--but is the perfect example of what made Spain the empire it was--the courage and honor of the Spanish soldier.Highly recommended