| Title:
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THE NINTH GATE
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| By: |
Arturo Perez-Reverte, Margaret Jull Costa (Trans) |
| Format: |
Paperback |
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£5.99 |
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| ISBN 10: |
1860467687 |
| ISBN 13: |
9781860467684 |
| Publisher: |
VINTAGE PUBLISHING |
| Pub. date: |
12 February, 2000 |
| Edition: |
Media tie-in |
| Pages: |
336 |
| Translated from: |
Spanish |
| Description: |
Obsessional book hunter, Lucas Corso, is asked to authenticate a Dumas manuscript. Persuaded that there may be an occult link between this and another text owned by a wealthy Spanish dealer, which purports to instruct on invoking the Devil, he sets out on a hunt that becomes a dangerous drama. |
| Synopsis: |
What could possibly be the connection between an allegedly authentic manuscript of a chapter from Dumas The Three Musketeers and a 17th century occult text, a manual for invoking the devil, only one copy of which is believed to have survived after its was publisher was burnt at the stake? Gin-swilling book-hunter Lucas Corso is hired to authenticate the Dumas manuscript. At the same time, Varo Borja, the owner of an occult text, The Nine Doors, persuades him to investigate two further editions of the book known to be in collections in Sintra and Paris. As Corso digs into the mystery, the twilight world of antiquarian bookselling, a milieu of ruthless predators, unfolds. Corso finds himself sharing a stage with a cast of characters who seem to have walked straight off the pages of a Dumas novel. And Corso appears to have been assigned the role of D Artagnan. |
| Illustrations: |
illustrations |
| Publication: |
UK |
| Imprint: |
The Harvill Press |
| Returns: |
Returnable |