Revolution

12 hrs. 32 min.

Romance & Prose

Language Russian

Author Arturo Pérez-Reverte

Narrator Kirill Petrov

Description

“This is the story of a man, of a revolution, and of a treasure…” The revolution begins in Mexico in 1911, when the country casts off a corrupt dictator and tries to rebuild itself. The treasure — fifteen thousand gold coins — will be expropriated for the needs of the revolution from a bank safe and then disappear without a trace. And the man — young mining engineer Martín Garrett Ortiz — gets pulled into revolutionary affairs at first out of boredom and curiosity, and then by the call of his soul. The revolution will be accomplished, although the winners will be far from the ones who shed blood for it — and not even those who believed in it. Sooner or later, the treasure will be found. And the man, on his own skin, will learn the thrill of battle and the animal fear, tender love and cynical betrayal, brutality and generosity, despair and adrenaline — he will grow up and understand what honor is, what death is, and what disappointment is. Arturo Pérez-Reverte is a former war journalist, acclaimed author of brilliant historical, military, and adventure novels translated into forty languages, creator of the series about Captain Diego Alatriste, and recipient of prestigious literary awards. His “Revolution” is a grand adventure epic, the story of a soul that loses innocence in a romantic rush, and of personal heroism inevitably arising into the bloody butcher’s mess in the name of lofty goals.