Name: The Club Dumas
SKU: 1778185
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Author: Arturo Pérez-Reverte
ISBN: 9780156032834

Type

Physical Book

Author

Arturo Pérez-Reverte

Publisher

Harpervia

Year

1900

Language

English

Pages

368

Format

Paperback

Dimensions

20.7x13.6x2.2 cm

Weight

0.34 kg.

ISBN

9780156032834

ISBN13

9780156032834

Synopsis "The Club Dumas "

#1 International Bestseller"A thriller of marvelous intricacy" (The New York Times Book Review), The Club Dumas is a provocative literary thriller that playfully pays tribute to classic tales of mystery and adventure.Lucas Corso is a book detective, a middle-aged mercenary hired to hunt down rare editions for wealthy and unscrupulous clients. When a well-known bibliophile is found dead, 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 for a Conan Doyle heroine, Corso travels from Madrid to Toledo to Paris on the killer's trail in this twisty intellectual romp through the book world."Erudite, funny, loopy, brilliant...action-adventure spied with dollops of idiosyncrasy -- and some very good talk."--The Philadelphia Inquirer

Arturo Pérez-Reverte

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Arturo Pérez-Reverte (Cartagena, Spain, in 1951) was a war reporter for twenty-one years and covered eighteen armed conflicts for newspapers and television, he is also a writer, known for his thrilling novels of adventure, history, and suspense. Before dedicating himself fully to literature, he worked for more than two decades as a war correspondent, an experience that deeply marked his narrative style. Among Arturo Pérez-Reverte's books are El capitán Alatriste, which started a successful series set in the Spanish Golden Age, La tabla de Flandes and El club Dumas, novels that mix erudition, intrigue, and action.
He has been a member of the Royal Spanish Academy since 2003, Pérez-Reverte is recognized for his agile prose, complex characters, and plots that combine historical rigor with a deep analysis of the human condition. His work has been translated into numerous languages and adapted into film, consolidating him as one of the most influential authors of contemporary Spanish literature.

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