¡°El H¨²sar is my first novel. Written in 1983 between two war articles, at that time I had no intentions to dedicate myself to writing literature, and published almost by chance by a publishing company with which I never maintained a good relationship, it has taken me almost twenty years to recover the publication rights. Now this novel surfaces again, finally to the author¡¯s liking, with a suitable revision, corrected of errors and lightened of some unnecessary adverbs and adjectives.¡± ¨DArturo P¨¦rez-Reverte.