Synopsis
Lucas Corso is a bibliophile mercenary in the middle of two searches. He needs to prove if a manuscript of “The Three Musketeers” is genuine. He must also find the solution to the enigma of a diabolic book, burned with the printer in 1667 by the Holy office and condemned by the Vatican., Only two other copies are known. He must search from dusty old bookstores to the most select libraries owned by important international collectors. “Pérez-Reverte has plundered the works of Dumas and Conan Doyle, borrowed from demonology and the occult, filched from American hard-boiled mysteries, incorporated contemporary literary criticism, and come up with a novel that's witty, suspenseful, and intellectually provocative.”—Booklist