"Mr. Perez-Reverte...is extremely good on the business of book collecting. Among the pleasures of The Club Dumas is the intimate sense it conveys of this highly specialized type of commerce, with its appreciation of certain authors...Mr. Perez-Reverte does an admirable job of describing these bibliophiles, as well as of creating works like "The Nine Doors," whose illustrations are reproduced and described in fascinating detail."
--- The New York Times Book Review, Margot Livesey

"Erudite, funny, loopy, brilliant...action-adventure spiced with dollops of idiosyncrasy--and some very good talk."
--- Philadelphia Inquirer

"A noir metafiction...Even a reader armed with a Latin dictionary and copy of The Three Musketeers cannot anticipate the thrilling twists of this stylish, Escher-like mystery."
--- The New Yorker