About the Author

ARTURO PEREZ-REVERTE is the award-winning author of many critically acclaimed novels, including The Club Dumas, The Flanders Panel, and the Captain Alatriste series. A retired war journalist, he lives in Madrid and is a member of the Royal Spanish Academy.

Reviews

PRAISE FOR THE CLUB DUMAS
"An intelligent and delightful novel." -THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW
"A cross between Umberto Eco and Anne Rice . . . Think of The Club Dumas as a beach read for intellectuals."-THE NEW YORK DAILY NEWS

Pérez-Reverte, who proved with The Flanders Panel (LJ 6/15/94) that art history and chess can mix to create suspense, is back with another literate mystery. Here the focus is on literature, particularly the world of antiquarian books, which proves much less stuffy than one might expect. Lucas Corso, a "mercenary of the book world [who hunted] down books for other people," gets more than he bargained for when he seeks to authenticate a manuscript of Chapter 42 of Alexandre Dumas's The Three Musketeers. The manuscript was purchased from Enrique Taillefer, a publisher subsequently found hanged, and it leads him on a search for the original of The Book of the Nine Doors to the Kingdom of Darkness, a work of the occult that was banned in the 17th century. So why is a man with a scar trying to kill Corso, and why is Taillefer's lubricious widow using her wiles to get back the Dumas chapter? This book takes a little longer to heat up than The Flanders Panel, possibly because the misansthropic Corso is not as as attractive a protagonist as Flanders's heroine, but soon the chase is on‘and it's as suspenseful as any mystery buff could want. The learned detail about early printing, the occult, and Dumas is just as stimulating. Highly recommended for readers who want their thrills a cut above the average.‘Barbara Hoffert, "Library Journal"

PRAISE FOR THE CLUB DUMAS
"An intelligent and delightful novel." -THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW "A cross between Umberto Eco and Anne Rice . . . Think of The Club Dumas as a beach read for intellectuals."-THE NEW YORK DAILY NEWS
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