The Club Dumas by Arturo Pérez-Reverte

FIRST PAPERBACK PRINTING [1998] VINTAGE INTERNATIONAL

Solid reading copy w/ some cover wear. 

Inspiration for The Ninth Gate, the film starring Johnny Depp. Lucas Corso is a book detective, a middle-aged mercenary hired to hunt down rare editions for wealthy and unscrupulous clients. When a well-known bibliophile is found dead, leaving behind part of the original manuscript of Alexandre Dumas's The Three Musketeers, Corso is brought in to authenticate the fragment. He is soon drawn into a swirling plot involving devil worship, occult practices, and swashbuckling derring-do among a cast of characters bearing a suspicious resemblance to those of Dumas's masterpiece.