The Club Dumas | Arturo Perez-Reverte

The Club Dumas | Arturo Perez-Reverte | You need to know your Dumas

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The Club Dumas

	The Club Dumas Arturo Perez-Reverte Harvest Books, 2006 - 368 pages average customer review:based on 32 reviews view larger image
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highly recommended

#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.

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Cleverly woven story

I read this book a while ago, but it still remains on my list of favorites. I had already seen the movie "The Ninth Gate" and didn't know this was the book that movie was based upon until the storyline started to seem vaguely familiar.

Even though I knew the story, I still enjoyed reading the book immensely. The book is a bit different from the movie and the plot is very cleverly constructed. It keeps the reader guessing until the end, and the end does not disappoint.

After finishing this book, I went on to read some of Perez-Reverte's other books including The Flanders Panel. If you enjoy this type of book, you may also enjoy The Shadow of the Wind

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You need to know your Dumas

Usually when I view a movie (in this case The Nine Gates), if I see it is based on a book, I read the book. As usual, don't expect the book to be the same as the movie, although it comes close in some areas. The book was far better and was more "gripping". However, you had to be familiar with Dumas' The Three Musketeers (not the movie, although watching that would help)to make the book come to life. You can't go wrong here. What is even better is the author gives you a bit of an biographical history of Dumas himself which is a plus. You like this one. Don't miss it.

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Great plot, strange ending

The author did a good job developing the characters and the plot. The old manuscripts/books angle kept my interest. Having seen some Spanish, Argentine, and Mexican films, I'd have to say the ending of Club Dumas was very much in line with types of endings many Spanish speaking films have - bizarre! This was a good read. I would definitely recommend this book. I will also read books by this author again.

Bone up on Dumas and you're bound to love it!

I wish the literary references weren't constantly beyond me, because I really liked this book, but I did feel it would have helped to bone up on Dumas and The Three Musketeers in advance. However, if you like books, and mysteries, with a bit of occult (perhaps conjuring up Satan himself), this book will keep you interested to the very last page.

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