num_pages: 243
description: This delightful farce opens as the prim and proper Captain Pantoja learns he is to be sent to Peru's Amazon frontier on a secret mission for the army - to provide females for the amorous recruits. Side-splitting complications arise as world of Captain Pantoja's remarkable achievements start to spread.
language: English
title: Captain Pantoja and the Special Service
titlecomplete: Captain Pantoja and the Special Service
genres: Fiction, Latin American, Spanish Literature, Humor, Latin American Literature, Literature, Classics, Novels, Nobel Prize, Literary Fiction
ratings_count: 10862
places: Iquitos, Peru
publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux