This was incredibly unfortunate for me, as english language bookstores were limited, and my yen to read everything he's ever written became quite overwhelming. Perez-Reverte is capable of a feeling of quiet poetry in the events of his novel, his choices in terms of where to take them next. Bottom line, I would gladly invest my time in other kinds of murder-mystery books. Here the main characters are certainly drawn well enough, though I think no one would call them spectacular. I found this book very tedious, from the turgid writing style translated too literally from the original Spanish, I suspect to the excessively detailed chess expositions to the surprisingly boring analyses of the medieval mystery of the white knight's death.
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