Tom Reiss at Book Passage, Ferry Bldg.

Tom Reiss talks about The Black Count: Glory, Revolution, Betrayal, and the Real Count of Monte Cristo ($27.00). Here is the remarkable true story of the real Count of Monte Cristo. The Black Count is simultaneously a riveting adventure story, a lushly textured evocation of 18th-century France, and a window into the modern world’s first multi-racial society. But it is also a heartbreaking story of the enduring bonds of love between a father and son.