Arturo Pérez-Reverte (r. 1951) - a modern Spanish writer, a brilliant connoisseur of history and art, a master of fine literature, won the hearts of readers with novels with exciting intrigue His prose is filigree, themes and plot twists are unexpected. Mysteries of past centuries and mysterious crimes coexist in them with current problems of modernity. The history of the Spanish battalion of the 326th line infantry regiment of the Napoleonic army, which tried in vain to go over to the side of the Russians near Moscow, is a book in which epochs and styles are skillfully mixed, farce and high tragedy War has never seemed so absurd.... The story "Shadow of the Eagle" - for the first time in Russian.