Prey for the Shadow
A Terra Alta Investigation
Published on 6. June 2024
Book
Paperback/Softback
384 pages
978-1-5294-2251-1 (ISBN)
Description
The mayor of Barcelona is being blackmailed.
A sex tape from her student days - one she never knew existed. The price: 300,000 euros and her immediate resignation.
A political chameleon who swept to power on a populist wave, she has her enemies. Nor can she trust those closest to her. Both her ex-husband and her deputy would profit from her fall.
Melchor Marin, living a quiet life in Terra Alta, is tempted back to Barcelona to work the case. But what seemed a simple matter has its roots in far more serious and disturbing crimes.
With the mayor on the verge of capitulation, a shock revelation changes everything - not least the course of Melchor's life. At long last, his heart's dark desire is in his grasp.
Praise for Even the Darkest Night
"A gem of a book, easily the best I've read this year" M W Craven
"A wonderful novel. I look forward to many more Melchor stories" A N Wilson
"The first in what promises to be an excellent series" Guardian
Translated from the Spanish by Anne McLean
A sex tape from her student days - one she never knew existed. The price: 300,000 euros and her immediate resignation.
A political chameleon who swept to power on a populist wave, she has her enemies. Nor can she trust those closest to her. Both her ex-husband and her deputy would profit from her fall.
Melchor Marin, living a quiet life in Terra Alta, is tempted back to Barcelona to work the case. But what seemed a simple matter has its roots in far more serious and disturbing crimes.
With the mayor on the verge of capitulation, a shock revelation changes everything - not least the course of Melchor's life. At long last, his heart's dark desire is in his grasp.
Praise for Even the Darkest Night
"A gem of a book, easily the best I've read this year" M W Craven
"A wonderful novel. I look forward to many more Melchor stories" A N Wilson
"The first in what promises to be an excellent series" Guardian
Translated from the Spanish by Anne McLean
Reviews / Votes
This novel is not just good, it's great -- Alvaro Colomer * Diari Ara * Cercas' best. A terrific novel -- Jose Maria Pozuelo Yvancos * ABC Cultural * The new Cercas shines brightly -- Jordi Amat * La Vanguardia * A courageous Javier Cercas seeks to give an allegorical dimension to social observation,and succeeds ... a committed moral novel and belligerent tale of denunciation -- Santos Sanz Villanueva * Zenda Libros *
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Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Quercus Publishing
Dimensions
Height: 197 mm
Width: 129 mm
Thickness: 26 mm
Weight
270 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-5294-2251-1 (9781529422511)
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E-Book
07/2023
MacLehose Press
€3.99
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Persons
Javier Cercas was born in 1962. He is a novelist, short-story writer and columnist, whose books include Soldiers of Salamis (which sold more than a million copies worldwide, won six literary awards in Spain and was filmed by David Trueba), The Tenant and The Motive, The Speed of Light and The Anatomy of a Moment. His books have been translated into more than twenty languages. He lives in Barcelona.