On 1/25/06, Philip Hart <philiph at slac.stanford.edu> wrote: > from http://www.nytimes.com/2006/01/26/books/26masl.html > You bet we do. He is Capt. Diego Alatriste y Tenorio, the brooding, > charismatic hero of Arturo Pérez-Reverte's wildly successful Spanish > swashbuckling novels. He is profoundly cynical yet quietly principled, > weary of battle yet ready to duel if he must. He is a man of few words but > many melancholy gazes into the void. > He has an iguana, his familiar, on one shoulder. No doubt you threw in that last line to add excitement and local color to the narrative.