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In the late eighteenth century, when two members of the Royal Spanish Academy, the librarian Don Hermógenes Molina and the admiral Don Pedro Zárate, are commissioned by their colleagues to travel to Paris to secretly retrieve all 28 volumes of the Encyclopedia of Diderot and d'Alembert - banned in Spain - no one would suspect that two academics would have to face a dangerous journey full of uncertainties and surprises alone. One that would lead them to roads teeming with bandits and run-down inns, from Charles III's enlightened Madrid to the Paris of cafés, salons, philosophical debates, libertine lifestyles, and political upheavals on the eve of the French Revolution.

Good Men is a history and book lover's adventure in which Arturo Pérez-Reverte revisits the literary terrain of his previous work, The Club Dumas