Club Dumas, El

Description: The great novel by Arturo Pérez-Reverte that opened the way to international success for thrillers inspired by the world of books

Can a book be investigated by the police as if it were a crime, using its pages, paper, engravings and printing marks as clues, in an exciting journey spanning three centuries?

Lucas Corso, mercenary of bibliophilia, a book hunter for others, must find an answer to that question when he receives a double assignment from his clients: authenticate a manuscript of The Three Musketeers and decipher the enigma of a strange book, burned in 1667 with the man who printed it.

The investigation drags Corso - and with him, inevitably, the reader - into a dangerous search that will take him from the archives of the Holy Office to condemned books, from dusty second-hand bookstores to the most select libraries of international collectors.

Built with exceptional narrative talent, The Dumas Club places, piece by piece, an exciting, meticulous and complex plot, where the ingredients of the classic serial novel, detective and mystery stories, fortune-telling games and soap opera techniques come together. of adventures.

This novel was made into a film by director Roman Polanski with the title The Ninth Gate.

Critics have said...

"A true thriller, a wonderfully complex plot."

The New York Times Book Review

"Between The Name of the Rose, the role-playing game and Agatha Christie."

L'Express

«There is a Spanish writer who looks like the best Spielberg plus Umberto Eco. His name is Arturo Pérez-Reverte.»

The Republic

"Not even the most discerning reader could anticipate the electrifying surprises of this Escher-elegant mystery."

The New Yorker

"The Spaniard Pérez-Reverte walks gallantly in the footsteps of the great Alexandre Dumas, juggling characters, multiplying false clues and intriguing mysteries."

Bertand Audusse, The World