The Washington Post, June 20th, 1999
After 18 years, Edmond Dants escaped from an island prison to find his beloved father dead from grief, his fiance married to his sworn enemy, and his best friends -- now prominent men -- accomplices in his false arrest. "If You didn't see fit to exercise divine justice," Dants declares to what he views as an unjust God, "I'll see to it. My way. It shall be merciless . . . and devastating." So Dants becomes the Dirty Harry of the post-Napoleonic era. The crusade to plot and carry out his retribution is told in "The Count of Monte Cristo," an engaging and deceptively fleet eight-hour miniseries ...
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