Revolution. Pérez-Reverte

«This is the story of a man, of a revolution, and of a treasure...» The revolution will begin in Mexico in 1911, when the country will overthrow a corrupt dictator and attempt to rebuild itself. The treasure — fifteen thousand... gold coins — will be expropriated for the needs of the revolution from a bank vault and then disappear without a trace. And the man, a young mining engineer named Martin Garrett Ortiz, will get involved in revolutionary affairs first out of boredom and curiosity, and then by the call of the soul. The revolution will happen, although the winners will not be those who shed blood for it — and not even those who believed in it. The treasure will be found sooner or later. And the man will learn firsthand the thrill of battle and primal fear, fervent love and cynical betrayal, brutality and magnanimity, despair and fervor — he will grow up and understand what honor is, what death is, and what disappointment is. Arturo Pérez-Reverte is a former war journalist, a celebrated author of brilliant historical, military, and adventure novels, translated into forty languages, the creator of the Captain Diego Alatriste series, and the holder of prestigious literary awards. His «Revolution» is a grand adventure epic, the story of a soul that lost its innocence in a romantic impulse, and personal heroism inevitably leading to the bloody mire of slaughter in the name of high ideals. For the first time in Russian!