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Title: Charm but radically impausible
Review: Perez-Reverte clearly loves Seville, and I now want to visit it. The characters I would most like to meet from the novel are the "Three Stooges" villains. The major protagonists less so, though it would be interesting to see Macarena remove her cigarette lighter from her bra strap (something the author brings up over and over). At some points plausibility plunges out of sight but then an episode of humor (particularly some muddled literary allusions by one of the villains) redeems things. Speeches by high clerics in the Vatican are wooden and unconvincing.
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