The Captain Alatriste, at the same time title and protagonist of the book that Perez Reverte wrote with help of his daughter
Carlota, which appears as co-author enclosedly in the front page, narrates the adventures of an honest and noble
swashbuckler, of great spirit and bravely, but cruelly, that lives through an eternal pursuit of the one that not always is a so easy get away. The history told in the first person and as something already happened by a secondary personage of proper book (lackey, to his way, of the Captain), and what probably happens to be a principal personage only for this fact, is ambiented in ancient Madrid; in I make concrete in the epoch which lived Quevedo lived, baroque excellent writer of the Spanish letters who appears in the novel as one more swashbuckler, faithful friend of Alatriste, and which is elevated
appearance by appearance at the expense of the author, in whom a sincere admiration is deduced towards the poetry and Don Francisco's personality.