Stumble it!Review: The Club Dumas
I just finished reading The Club Dumas
It is written in a very effective traditional literature style and combines a love for classic books and the seedier side of metaphysics. The main character is a man named Corso, and he is a rare book mercenary. A lone wolf that does what it takes to complete the job his contract employers set out for him. He is hard, yet sensitive. Harsh yet nostalgic. Ruthless yet smart.
On his current mission, Corso sets out to do two things: First, to find out more about a partial manuscript that a friend of his has acquired. Allegedly it’s a portion of the Anjou Wine chapter of Dumas’ The Three Musketeers. The second is to seek out the other two remaining copies of a magical book called The Nine Doors for a client.
Along his journey, he meets a mysterious cast of characters right out of the pages of The Three Musketeers and finds an unlikely companion in the form of a young, beautiful, mysterious woman. He may even be walking with the devil herself. In Corsos’ path follows death, destruction, mystery, intrigue and it all leads him to the wrong conclusions. Finally, the mystery he thought isn’t the mystery that is, and he discovers this when he comes face to face with a secret organization, The Club Dumas.
The story is told by a minor character who has a huge impact on the story line. This mode of story telling was actually refreshing and worked very well. If you like classics, mysteries and a splash of the metaphysical than this book is a hit for you. I really enjoyed it, and there are only a few things that my critical eye would change. If nothing else, it turned me onto another classic book, The Devil in Love, that I would like to check out.
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