Book Nine in the Musketeers Cycle
By Alexandre Dumas, Edited and Translated by Lawrence Ellsworth
The Man in the Iron Mask: Book Nine and last in the Musketeers Cycle, the grand conclusion of the thrilling adventures of d’Artagnan, Athos, Porthos, and Aramis at the Court of Louis XIV. If you read only one other book by Alexandre Dumas than The Three Musketeers, this is it! Available Spring 2025 from Pegasus Books of New York and London.
D’Artagnan, Athos, Porthos, and Aramis: you know their names, the four loyal comrades whose saga begins in Alexandre Dumas’ celebrated novel The Three Musketeers and concludes here in the thrilling The Man in the Iron Mask. The musketeers, older and on their own, are drawn back to the glittering court of Louis XIV, the Sun King, where intrigue, political rivalry, and royal jealousy pose deadly threats to the heroes and their loved ones. And once more, the four swashbucklers are enmeshed in a conspiracy that threatens the Crown of France itself.
Faced with treachery at every turn, the four musketeers must regain the dash and daring of their youth to prevail in their greatest adventure yet. Fortunately, the comrades are still true to their natures: the noble Athos and his son, the romantic Raoul; the laughing giant Porthos, as mighty as ever; and the bold and steely d’Artagnan, now Captain of the King’s Musketeers at last. But then, the sly and wily Aramis stumbles on a royal secret that can shake the realm itself—and exploiting that great secret proves too much of a temptation to resist for a man as ambitious as Aramis!
The epic final adventure of the four greatest heroes in swashbuckling literature, The Man in the Iron Mask is a gripping thriller that takes the musketeers from the royal palace of Louis XIV to the dread dungeons of the Bastille, from midnight abductions through secret passages in noble châteaux to swordplay and sacrifice on the wild shores of Brittany. It’s an unforgettable tale of tragedy and triumph from the pen of Alexandre Dumas, the master of historical adventure and romance.