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Fallen angels, satanic manuals, and a passion for the works of Raphael Sabatini and Alexandre Dumas among others--this is the stuff of Spanish author Arturo Pérez-Reverte's engrossing novel The Club Dumas. Set in a world of antiquarian booksellers where dealers would gladly betray their own mothers to get their hands on a rare volume, The Club Dumas is a thinking person's thriller: in addition to a riveting plot, the book is full of intriguing details that range from the working habits of Alexandre Dumas to how one might go about forging a 17th-century text. Woven through these meditations is enough murder, sex, and the occult to keep both the hero, Lucas Corso, and the reader hopping.
As in his previous novel, The Flanders Panel, set in the world of art restoration, Mr. Pérez-Reverte has written a literary thriller to tease both the intellect and adrenaline gland. Lucas Corso makes a complex, ultimately sympathetic hero, and there's plenty to delight in the intricate twists and turns the story takes before the mystery of The Club Dumas is finally solved.Lucas Corso, an authority on rare books, makes his living tracking down valuable items for rich bibliophiles. His latest assignment, deciphering the mystery of a 17th century book that legend has was co written by Satan, a book for which only three copies are known to exist, has become a very dangerous adventure. As if this weren t enough, a handwritten chapter of Alexandre Dumas The Three Musketeers comes into play. The stories intermingle and result in a page turning thriller distinctive of Perez Reverte s writing. The book was taken to the big screen in a movie titled The Ninth Gate by renowned director Roman Polanski..
Description in Spanish:
Puede un libro ser investigado policialmente como si de un crimen se tratara? Lucas Corso, mercenario de la bibliofilia, cazador de libros por cuenta ajena, se enfrenta a esa pregunta cuando recibe un doble encargo de sus clientes: autentificar un manuscrito de Los tres mosqueteros y descifrar el enigma de un extrano libro, quemado en 1667 con el hombre que lo imprimio. La peligrosa indagacion le llevara de los archivos del Santo Oficio a los libros condenados, de las polvorientas librerias de viejo a las mas selectas bibliotecas de los coleccionistas internacionales. Read more
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