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Biographical note
Arturo Peréz-Reverte was born in Cartagena in 1951. Since the publication of The Fencing Master, his first novel, Pérez-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
- Michael Kerrigan, Scotsman
A noir meta-fiction. Even a reader armed with a Latin dictionary and a copy of <i>The Three Musketeers</i> 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
- Stephanie Merritt, Daily Telegraph
A rip-roaring entertainment - tongue in cheek and sword in hand
Mail on Sunday