In the world of rare books, everything has its price. But when the book is a satanic tract, the trading currency is not money, but life...
Arturo Perez-Reverte was born in Cartagena in 1951. Since the publication of The Fencing Master, his first novel, Perez-Reverte has become one of Europe's bestselling authors. The Flanders Panel was awarded the Grand Prix Annuel de Litterature Policiere in France. His novel The Dumas Club has been made into the film The Ninth Gate by Roman Polanski, starring Johnny Depp.
A dizzyingly complicated, dazzlingly allusive, breathlessly
exciting novel of adventure and detection
*Scotsman*
A noir meta-fiction. Even a reader armed with a Latin dictionary
and a copy of The Three Musketeers cannot anticipate the thrilling
twists of this Escher-like mystery
*New Yorker*
A sophisticated and exciting intellectual game which brilliantly
illustrates the sheer delight of fiction
*Daily Telegraph*
A rip-roaring entertainment - tongue in cheek and sword in hand
*Mail on Sunday*
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