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Hello all;
After some consideration I've made the next selection for the EnWorld Book Club. It is the The Club Dumas by Arturo Perez-Reverte. It's a highly regarded mystery with fantastic elements.
Discussion in due to start on the 15th of October.
Links: amazon.com, amazon.co.uk.
First Chapter: http://www.randomhouse.com/catalog/display.pperl?isbn=0679777547&view=excerpt
Book Club Main thread: http://www.enworld.org/forums/showthread.php?t=91597
A shout out for the next selector is currently taking place
here! Get your name down while you still can!
After some consideration I've made the next selection for the EnWorld Book Club. It is the The Club Dumas by Arturo Perez-Reverte. It's a highly regarded mystery with fantastic elements.
Discussion in due to start on the 15th of October.
Links: amazon.com, amazon.co.uk.
Lucas Corso, middle-aged, tired, and cynical, 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.
The task seems straightforward, but the unsuspecting Corso 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 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 internationally bestselling author of The Flanders Panel and The Seville Communion.
First Chapter: http://www.randomhouse.com/catalog/display.pperl?isbn=0679777547&view=excerpt
Book Club Main thread: http://www.enworld.org/forums/showthread.php?t=91597
A shout out for the next selector is currently taking place
here! Get your name down while you still can!
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