- ""El Husar 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 20 years to recover the publication rights. Now this novel surfaces again, finally to my liking, with a suitable revision, corrected of errors and lightened of some unnecessary adverbs and adjectives."" - Arturo Perez-Reverte. Description in Spanish: ""Un relato intenso y habil que hoy figura entre lo mejor del conjunto de su obra. Su historia, las experiencias militares en Andalucia, en 1808, del subteniente del ejercito napoleonico Frederic Gluntz, habla de una cosa, del desarrollo de unas batallas, y se refiere a otra, al sentido de la vida y a la condicion humana frente a una situacion limite. Un relato de accion, pero no solo ni sobre todo"". Santos Sanz Villanueva