The Club Dumas is a multi-layered quest story featuring “mercenary” book hunter Lucas Corso, who is hired to authenticate a pair of literary curiosities: a hand-written fragment of Alexander Dumas’s masterpiece, The Three Musketeers and a rare edition of a proscribed volume of black magic entitled The Book of the Nine Doors of the Kingdom of Shadows. These interlinked quests lead Corso into a labyrinth of murder, suicide, and satanic rituals. At the same time, they lead him into the heart of a carefully constructed narrative that is strange, familiar, and deeply seductive, all at once.

Using elements from John Milton, Umberto Eco, Arthur Conan Doyle, Agatha Christie and, of course, Alexander Dumas, this enthralling novel is an intellectual thriller of the highest order. More importantly, it is a profoundly erudite meditation on the importance of books, and on the power they continue to exert on us across the centuries.