Arturo Pérez-Reverte (November 25, 1951, Cartagena, Spain) is a Spanish novelist an journalist. He worked as war reporter for twenty-one years (1973 - 1994). He started his journalistic career writing for the now-defunct newspaper Pueblo and then for Televisión Española (the Spanish state-owned television), often as a war correspondent. His first novel, El húsar, set in the Napoleonic Wars, was released in 1986.