The Dumas Club (Harvill Panther S.) - Softcover

Peréz-Reverte, Arturo

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1860461522 ISBN 13: 9781860461521

Verlag: Vintage, 1997

Inhaltsangabe

(In Lucas Corso we find a typically Perez-Revertine lead (a modest and withdrawn existential hero of curious yet fanatical habits - a man living in the past) struggling with familiar themes of murder, intregue, and especially, conspiracy. Naturally this is a conspiracy bound-up with at least one feme fatal)

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Reseña del editor:

In the world of rare books everything has its price. But when the book is a satanic tract, the currency is not money but life. A well-know bibliophile is found hanged days after selling a rare manuscript of Alexander Dumas's classic, The Three Musketeers. Across Madrid, Spain's wealthiest book dealer has finally laid his hands on a 17th-century manual for summoning the devil. Lucas Corso, solitary and obsessive, is the detective hired to authenticate both texts. But the further he follows the trail of devil worship, the more it leads him back to Dumas. He's the unwitting protagonist in someone's evil plot, but is he sleuth or hero, Sherlock Holmes or d'Artagnan?

Biografía del autor:

Arturo Pérez-Reverte was born in Cartagena in 1951. Since the publication of The Fencing Master, his first novel, Pérez-Reverte has become one of Europe's bestselling authors. The Flanders Panel was awarded the Grand Prix Annuel de Litttérature Policière in France. His novel The Dumas Club has been made into the film The Ninth Gate by Roman Polanski and starring Johnny Depp.

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• Verlag: Vintage
• Erscheinungsdatum: 1997
• ISBN 10: 1860461522
• ISBN 13: 9781860461521
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 336