Arturo Pérez-Reverte

No século XVI, os conquistadores espanhóis Lope de Aguirre e Núñez de Balboa embarcam em uma expedição épica pela selva amazônica em busca de uma cidade mítica que, segundo dizem, é feita completamente de ouro.

Coy, a sailor without ship, banished from the sea by a navigation accident occurred during his guard, knows in an auction of naval objects in Barcelona to an attractive and mysterious woman, Tangier. This, in hard struggle with an Italian adventurer, Nino Palermo, manages to get a cartographic jewel of eighteen, the Maritime Atlas of Urrutia.

O espadachim do século XVII Diego Alatriste é contratado para matar o Príncipe de Gales e o duque de Buckingham sem saber que se trata deles. Ao descobrir a identidade de seus alvos, entende que terá que enfrentar pessoas muito poderosas.

Andres is a flamenco singer who has just gotten out of prison after being falsely convicted of the murder of Romero, a member of his band. As Andres tries to re-acclimate himself to freedom, he discovers things have not been going his way while he was up the river; his wife Lucia is having an affair with another man, while his bullying father Isidoro is obsessed with getting revenge against Don Manuel, who rules a local crime syndicate known as the Junco Family.

Johnny Depp está no papel de Dean Corso, um especialista em livros raros. Ele é contratado por Boris Balkan, um estudioso sobre demônios que acabou de conseguir uma raro livro do século 17 que, segundo a lenda, foi escrito pelo Diabo e traz uma poderosa invocação satânica. O novo cliente quer que Corso viaje à Europa e encontre os dois outros únicos exemplares do mesmo livro para verificar sua autenticiadade. De Nova York a Toledo, de Portugal à Paris, Corso submerge-se num labirinto cheio de armadilhas e tentações, lidando com violência e mortes misteriosas

Spanish TV reporters covering the War in Bosnia. Based on true experience.

Spanish TV reporters covering the War in Bosnia. Based on true experience.

A gypsy girl, when her grandmother dies, goes in search of his mother who abandoned her as a baby

While restoring a fifteenth-century painting Julia reveals a hidden Latin phrase. A series of murders begin to rock her small world of art experts, patrons and restorers, and she finds that the mystery of the painting is interwoven with the mystery of the deaths around her.

A fencing master in pre-revolution Spain is hired to teach fencing to a beautiful young woman. Although he has never taught a woman before he is fascinated by her and agrees. She wishes to learn a particular thrust which he is famous for. When a local nobleman becomes involved with her the intrigue begins.