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Plot Summary of Captain Alatriste
"This book is the story of Captain Alatriste, a swordsman and bounty hunter in Madrid, Spain in the early 17th-century. The Captain returns from fighting in Flanders to eke out a leaving as a sword for hire. He lives above a pub and takes care of a teenage boy, Inigo, who narrates the story. On an assignment to rough up a couple of travelers, Alatriste finds himself involved in royal plot when it turns out that the travelers are actually the Prince of England and a companion sneaking in to Spain. By refusing to kill the Prince, Alatriste earns himself a few enemies including the masked people who hired him and the Italian assassin he was sent to do the job with.

Alatriste becomes involved in the political intrigues of the Spanish royal court and ends up in major danger several times as the corrupted members of the court and the Italian assassin seek to end his life. He does however have some powerful allies including the prince and a comic and blustering poet named Quevado. "

Deidre Woollard, Resident Scholar

Review Analysis of Captain Alatriste
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Plot

Composition of Book
descript. of violence and chases - 30%
Planning/preparing, gather info, debate puzzles/motives - 30%
Feelings, relationships, character bio/development - 20%
How society works & physical descript. (people, objects, places) - 30%




Tone of story - suspenseful (sophisticated fear)
Time/era of story: - elizabethan era
Spying/Terrorism Thriller Yes
Cloak & Dagger Plotlets: - preventing/finding assassin
Kid or adult book? - Adult or Young Adult Book

Main Character
Gender - Male
Profession/status: - bounty hunter
Age: - 40's-50's
Is this an ordinary person caught up in events? Yes
How much violence does he/she use? - a significant amount
Ethnicity/Race - Hispanic
How sensitive is this character? - middling sensitive to others' feelings
Sense of humor - Strong but gentle sense of humor
Intelligence - Smarter than most other characters
Physique - very athletic

Main Adversary
Identity: - an organization
Age: - long-lived adults
Profession/status: - mastermind
How much of work is main antagonist actually present in: - a moderate amount
Motive of antagonist - power

Setting
Europe Yes
European country: - Spain
City? Yes
City: - dangerous
Misc setting - prison

Style
Part of a series? Yes
Person - mostly 3rd
Accounts of torture and death? - moderately detailed references to deaths
How many deaths? - 5-7
Unusual forms of death - impaled
Unusual form of death? Yes
Amount of dialog - significantly more descript than dialog
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