Fencing Master

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Format: Hardcover
Pub. Date: 1999-05-01
Publisher(s): Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
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Summary

The unstoppable thrust is the arcane fencing technique known only by Don Jaime--and the deadly maneuver that a beautiful young woman wants him to teach her.What begins as a rather bold request leads Don Jaime into the shadowy politics and violence of mid-nineteenth-century Madrid.

Author Biography

Arturo Perez-Reverte is the internationally acclaimed author of The Flanders Panel, The Club Dumas, and The Seville Communion. Translated into nineteen languages in thirty countries, his books have sold more than three million copies worldwide. A well-known newspaper columnist, he was born in 1951 in Cartagena, Spain.

Table of Contents

The Fencing Bout
5(26)
Compound Attack with Two Feints
31(26)
Uncertain `Time' on a False Attack
57(24)
The Short Lunge
81(47)
Glissade
128(28)
An Attack on the Blade
156(25)
The Appel
181(26)
With Bare Blades
207

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