Arturo Perez Reverte Books in Order

Rare-book hunter Lucas Corso is hired to authenticate a fragment of a Dumas manuscript and to compare three copies of a legendary occult volume called The Nine Doors. His search through Spain, Portugal, and France drags him into a world of obsessive collectors, literary games, and possible devil worship.

Restoring a fifteenth-century chess painting, Madrid art conservator Julia discovers a hidden Latin question, "Who killed the knight?". As she, an elderly antiques dealer, and a reclusive chess genius reconstruct the game, a very modern killer begins removing people around them, one move at a time.

A hacker slips into the pope’s personal computer with a strange plea: save a crumbling Baroque church in Seville that seems to kill those who try to demolish it. Vatican fixer Father Lorenzo Quart is sent to investigate and soon finds himself caught between real-estate sharks, stubborn clergy, and a captivating Andalusian duchess.

Fresh from years of war in Flanders, soldier-for-hire Diego Alatriste scrapes by taking dangerous jobs in 1620s Madrid. When he and Italian killer Gualterio Malatesta are paid to attack two mysterious English travelers, Alatriste’s uneasy conscience turns a simple ambush into a tangle of court intrigue and betrayal.

In Madrid of 1623, Captain Alatriste is hired to rescue a young woman of converso background being held in a corrupt convent against her family’s wishes. As he and Íñigo move against powerful enemies, they collide with the Spanish Inquisition and the poisonous obsession with "pure" Christian blood.

Teenage Íñigo Balboa follows Captain Alatriste to the Dutch city of Breda, where Spanish tercios fight a grinding siege. Amid mud, hunger, and brutal assaults, he witnesses both heroism and cruelty, and sees how real war differs from the glorious battle scenes later painted on palace walls.

In 1860s Madrid, aging fencing master Don Jaime Astarloa lives quietly by a strict code of honor, training dwindling numbers of noble students. When the enigmatic Adela de Otero insists he teach her his secret unstoppable thrust, he is pulled into a web of seduction, blackmail, and political murder.

After the bloody siege of Breda, Captain Alatriste and Íñigo head to Seville and are hired to assemble a crew of cutthroats for a secret mission. Their target is contraband gold hidden in a treasure fleet galleon, but double-dealing courtiers and old enemies lurk behind the king’s orders.

Merchant marine officer Manuel Coy, grounded after a shipwreck, drifts into an auction of nautical antiques and notices a mysterious woman fiercely bidding on an old atlas. Drawn to her and to the sea again, he joins a dangerous hunt for a lost Jesuit brig and the secrets it carried.

When drug-smuggling pilot Güero Dávila is murdered, his young girlfriend Teresa Mendoza gets the warning call that means she is next. Fleeing Mexico for Spain, she learns the trade herself, rising from terrified fugitive to the hard, calculating queen of a cross-border trafficking empire.

In seventeenth-century Madrid, Captain Alatriste becomes the lover of famed actress María de Castro, only to find that powerful men covet her too. Drawn into a court plot that touches King Philip IV himself, Alatriste and Íñigo must navigate jealous rivals, hired assassins, and the treacherous politics of the playhouse.

Captain Alatriste and his foster son Íñigo escape Madrid’s intrigues by signing on to a Spanish war galley. From Naples to the coasts of North Africa and Malta, they face corsairs, shipboard mutiny, and brutal sea battles that test both courage and the limits of honor.

Retired war photographer Andrés Faulques hides in a crumbling tower on the Spanish coast, painting a vast mural of battles he once shot on film. His solitude ends when a stranger arrives, a man ruined by one of Faulques’s photos, who calmly announces he has come to kill him.

During the 1811 siege of Cádiz, bombardment is only half the danger as a killer starts targeting young women near every bomb crater. Police inspector Rogelio Tizón, a corsair captain, and a determined merchant’s daughter are pulled into a deadly, city-sized chess game.

Professional ballroom dancer and thief Max Costa meets Mecha, a rich composer’s wife, on a 1920s ocean liner and their affair never quite ends. Across Buenos Aires, wartime Nice, and Cold War Sorrento, tango, espionage, and old betrayals keep pulling them back together.

In June 1960, a violent storm strands nine travelers in a small hotel on the Greek island of Utakos. When quiet English tourist Edith Mander is found hanged in a beach pavilion, faded film actor Basil, once famous for playing Sherlock Holmes, reluctantly turns detective to solve an apparently impossible crime.

On a sun-washed Greek island in 1960, a storm isolates the guests of a seaside hotel just as a British woman is found apparently hanged in a beach cabana. Basil, an aging actor known for playing Sherlock Holmes, is pushed to use his on-screen deductive tricks to uncover a very real murderer.