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<blockquote data-quote="nikolai" data-source="post: 1733383" data-attributes="member: 10130"><p>I thought I’d post a few words about Perez-Reverte to put <strong>The Dumas Club</strong> in some sort of wider context. Arturo Perez-Reverte is a very successful Spanish author who has a very distinctive line in thrillers. <em>The Dumas Club</em> was shortlisted for the for the 1998 World Fantasy Awards, but was subsequently declared ineligible because of a previous UK edition. It has also been filmed as <strong><a href="http://uk.imdb.com/title/tt0142688/" target="_blank">The Ninth Gate</a></strong> by Roman Polanski, with Johnny Depp in the lead role; though the book is very different from the film.</p><p></p><p>Perez-Reverte’s other books include <em>The Fencing Master</em>, in which an ageing swordsman finds himself embroiled in a deadly plot, and which I can honestly say contains the best sword fight I’ve ever read. <em>The Flanders Panel</em>, a murder mystery which surrounds a painting of a game of chess, which conceals a hidden message. <em>The Seville Communion</em> in which a Vatican trouble-shooter is called to investigate a series of strange deaths occurring in a Seville church. <em>The Nautical Chart</em> which follows the hunt for the wreck of a Jesuit ship sunk by pirates in 1767. His latest book is the <em>The Queen of the South</em>, in which the lead character is given a phone, which if it ever rings, means that her boyfriend is dead, and whoever killed him is coming for her.</p><p></p><p>A longer look at Perez-Reverte’s books can be found here <a href="http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/tg/feature/-/535038/026-8028480-3178060" target="_blank">http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/tg/feature/-/535038/026-8028480-3178060</a></p><p></p><p>He has also written a series of old fashioned swashbucklers which revolve around Captain Alatriste; a swordsman in seventeenth-century Spain who hires out his skill with a blade. These are insanely popular where they’ve been published, and are currently being made into a <a href="http://www.empireonline.co.uk/site/futurefilms/ViewFilm.asp?FID=10139" target="_blank">film</a> staring Viggo Mortensen and Elena Anaya. English translations are currently in the works.</p><p></p><p>Thanks to everyone who’s posted on both this and the earlier threads. Hope you all enjoy the book.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="nikolai, post: 1733383, member: 10130"] I thought I’d post a few words about Perez-Reverte to put [b]The Dumas Club[/b] in some sort of wider context. Arturo Perez-Reverte is a very successful Spanish author who has a very distinctive line in thrillers. [i]The Dumas Club[/i] was shortlisted for the for the 1998 World Fantasy Awards, but was subsequently declared ineligible because of a previous UK edition. It has also been filmed as [b][url=http://uk.imdb.com/title/tt0142688/]The Ninth Gate[/url][/b] by Roman Polanski, with Johnny Depp in the lead role; though the book is very different from the film. Perez-Reverte’s other books include [i]The Fencing Master[/i], in which an ageing swordsman finds himself embroiled in a deadly plot, and which I can honestly say contains the best sword fight I’ve ever read. [i]The Flanders Panel[/i], a murder mystery which surrounds a painting of a game of chess, which conceals a hidden message. [i]The Seville Communion[/i] in which a Vatican trouble-shooter is called to investigate a series of strange deaths occurring in a Seville church. [i]The Nautical Chart[/i] which follows the hunt for the wreck of a Jesuit ship sunk by pirates in 1767. His latest book is the [i]The Queen of the South[/i], in which the lead character is given a phone, which if it ever rings, means that her boyfriend is dead, and whoever killed him is coming for her. A longer look at Perez-Reverte’s books can be found here [url]http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/tg/feature/-/535038/026-8028480-3178060[/url] He has also written a series of old fashioned swashbucklers which revolve around Captain Alatriste; a swordsman in seventeenth-century Spain who hires out his skill with a blade. These are insanely popular where they’ve been published, and are currently being made into a [url=http://www.empireonline.co.uk/site/futurefilms/ViewFilm.asp?FID=10139]film[/url] staring Viggo Mortensen and Elena Anaya. English translations are currently in the works. Thanks to everyone who’s posted on both this and the earlier threads. Hope you all enjoy the book. [/QUOTE]
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