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Lucas Corso, a gin-swilling book hunter and an expert in Napoleonic war games, is hired to authenticate an Alexandre Dumas manuscript. At the same time a Spanish bookseller asks him to investigate two other editions of the book. Reviews A dizzyingly complicated, dazzlingly allusive, breathlessly exciting novel of adventure and detectionScotsman - Michael KerriganA 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 mysteryNew YorkerA sophisticated and exciting intellectu...Read More