I just worked it out from the novel
Michael Wood, 24 April 1997
Tomorrow in the Battle Think on Me
by Javier Marías, translated by Margaret Jull Costa.
Harvill, 313 pp., £8.99, October 1996,1 86046 199 9 Show More
by Javier Marías, translated by Margaret Jull Costa.
Harvill, 313 pp., £8.99, October 1996,
The Club Dumas
by Arturo Pérez-Reverte, translated by Sonia Soto.
Harcourt Brace, 368 pp., $23, February 1997,0 15 100182 0 Show More
by Arturo Pérez-Reverte, translated by Sonia Soto.
Harcourt Brace, 368 pp., $23, February 1997,
“... Orson Welles’s Mr Arkadin, to hire a private eye to explore your own past or, like the hero of Arturo Pérez-Reverte’s The Club Dumas, to welcome the devil as your research assistant. You could also just read one of the formidably intelligent works of Javier Marías, expert in what he calls the ‘shadows’ of the untold story. He is the author of ... ”
