Upon returning to Spain from Flanders in 1626, Captain Alatriste and young Íñigo Balboa are sent to Seville to find who is smuggling gold from the Indies, and there they meet danger, betrayal, and old friends and enemies, including the poet Francisco de Quevedo.

"David Webb es el hombre. Jason Bourne, la más perfecta máquina de matar jamás diseñada por la CIA. Pero ambos comparten un único cuerpo, son el día y la noche de una sola persona ..."--P. [4] of cover.

Twenty-year-old Violet Sorrengail was supposed to enter the Scribe Quadrant, living a quiet life among books and history. Now, the commanding general--also known as her tough-as-talons mother--has ordered Violet to join the hundreds of candidates striving to become the elite of Navarre: dragon riders. But when you're smaller than everyone else and your body is brittle, death is only a heartbeat away ... because dragons don't bond to "fragile" humans....

A Chilean woman searches for her lover in the goldfields of 1840s California. Arriving as a stowaway, Eliza finances her search with various jobs, including playing the piano in a brothel.

Magdalena desaparece un domingo lluvioso en ausencia de sus padres. La protagonista se había casado en "broma" durante una pequeña ceremonia secreta con Enrique, quien la extrae en contra de su voluntad de su casa paterna la noche de ese domingo desdichado. Así comienza este apasionante relato detectivesco en el cual Rosa y Estefanía, guiadas por Crimen y Castigo de Dostoievski, sus lecturas de Sherlock Holmes y su cultura hollywoodesca, buscarán...

Flandes, 1625. Alistado como mochilero del capitán Alatriste en los tercios viejos que asedian Breda, Íñigo Balboa es testigo excepcional de la rendición de la ciudad, cuyos pormenores narrará diez años más tarde para un cuadro famoso de su amigo Diego Velázquez. Siguiendo a su amo por el paisaje pintado al fondo de ese cuadro, al otro lado del bosque de lanzas, veremos a Íñigo empuñar por primera vez la espada y el arcabuz, peleando por...

"This is the story of a man, three women, a revolution, and a treasure. An approach to the Mexican revolution in the times of Emiliano Zapata and Francisco Villa, and to the fifteen thousand gold coins of twenty pesos (the 'Maximilianos'), that were stolen from a bank in Ciudad Juárez on May 8, 1911. The man's name was Martín Garret Ortiz and he was a young Spanish mining engineer. It all changed for him that May 8th, when he heard a distant shot...