Club Dumas

Perez Reverte a

ISBN 10: 0156035294 / ISBN 13: 9780156035293

Published by Melia Publishing Services Ltd, 2010

About this Item

: Lucas Corso, un detective de libros de mediana edad y cínico, es contratado para autentificar un fragmento del manuscrito original de Los Tres Mosqueteros de Alejandro Dumas. La tarea parece sencilla, pero Corso se ve envuelto en una trama de adoración al diablo, prácticas ocultas y duelos de capa y espada, con personajes que recuerdan a la obra de Dumas. Con la ayuda de una misteriosa mujer, Corso viaja de Madrid a París en busca de un asesino. EAN: 9780156035293 Tipo: Libros Categoría: Literatura y Ficción Título: Club Dumas Autor: Perez Reverte a Editorial: Melia Publishing Services Ltd Idioma: en Páginas: 362 Formato: tapa blanda.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Club Dumas
• Publisher: Melia Publishing Services Ltd
• Publication Date: 2010
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0156035294
• ISBN 13: 9780156035293
• Binding: Soft cover
• Condition: As New

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Synopsis

#1 International Bestseller Lucas Corso is a book detective, a mercenary hired to hunt down rare editions for wealthy and unscrupulous clients. When a well-known bibliophile is found hanged, leaving behind part of the original manuscript of Alexandre Dumas's The Three Musketeers, Corso is brought in to authenticate the fragment. He is soon drawn into a swirling plot involving devil worship, occult practices, and swashbuckling derring-do among a cast of characters bearing a suspicious resemblance to those of Dumas's masterpiece. Aided by a mysterious beauty named after a Conan Doyle heroine, Corso travels from Madrid to Toledo to Paris in pursuit of a sinister and seemingly omniscient killer. Part mystery, part puzzle, part witty intertextual game, The Club Dumas is a wholly original intellectual thriller by the author of The Flanders Panel and The Seville Communion.

Review

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.