Prior to Joel dicker, new enfant terrible of the world black genre, Tom rob smith he was the favorite son of the darkest thrillers. They both wrote that dream bestseller before they reached 30. The best thing is to be able to enjoy both of them now, each one in his own way with that imprint of precocious ingenuity worked to polish the craft of mature authors.
In Tom Rob Smith's bibliography we find a point of debt to international suspense mixed between Daniel Silva, for its hectic actions, with a more classic setting to the point of the first John Le Carre. And the virtue, especially in a genre that draws a lot from past eras like the Cold War, is always in rescuing the best of the past and complementing it with the current.
Although the great impact of Tom Rob Smith was his novel "El Niño 44" on Chikalito, one of the most ruthless murderers in history, buried for more Inri, by the dark situation of a USSR that seemed to protect or at least not
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The child 44
The reality and its inexhaustible source of fictional arguments. Chikatilo the Ripper, the gruesome child killer. There is no greater display of animosity towards humanity than that violence against the children of one of the great serial criminals.
Always from the point of view of the investigator rescued for the cause by the author, agent Leo Demidov, we enter a strange world doubly locked between the iron political cause of Stalinism and the mind of the murderer. Evil upon evil. And the murderer is the focus of the investigation but, as if that were not enough, the adventures of Leo, over whom dark shadows increasingly loom, charge us with a tension that is at times overwhelming.
A war hero and agent of the security service of the Soviet Union, Leo Stepanovich Demidov blindly believes in the official propaganda, which maintains that his country is the paradise of equality and brotherhood on Earth, an alliance of free citizens and prosperous workers that it is worth defending against its many enemies with every conceivable means, including denunciation, repression, and severe punishment of offenders.
But the day he is forced to spy on his own wife for alleged treason, Demidov's blindfold begins to fall off. Indeed, neither his decorations nor his immaculate service record serve to avoid being demoted and expelled from Moscow. Forced to join the militia in an industrial city, he comes across the case of a series of murders of children that the authorities have suspiciously closed.
With very little to lose, and convinced that a ruthless criminal is on the loose, Demidov sets out to solve the mystery on his own, a risky decision that will lead him to discover the true danger that looms over him, a threat far more fearsome than its elusive target.
The farm
Having abandoned the nest, the relationship between the parents points to that wear and tear marked by the sound of the old kitchen clock. It doesn't always have to be this way, but the idea lurks with the urgency of deadlines. From that idea this delirious approach towards the sinister flies over. Coexistence also has its moment of overexposure in light of a great change, of the silence of the home previously loaded with movement and a noise capable of deafening any other problem.
Barely a few hours have passed since Daniel's life has undergone a radical turnaround. That same morning, while he was returning home from the supermarket, a disturbing call has broken the train of his thoughts: Chris, his father, informs him that his mother has been admitted to a sanatorium, prey to delusions.
Before he can even overcome the impact, another equally disturbing call explodes in his ears. This time it is the trembling voice of her mother, Tilde, assuring her that Chris is a liar, that she is not crazy, that she has left the center on her own feet, but that she fears for her life and is on her way to London to see him. and explain everything. Thus, in a matter of hours, Daniel will hear two opposite versions of the crisis. With a growing sense of horror, he discovers that under the face of a peaceful retirement life, the relationship between his parents is one of unbearable tension and paranoia.
To his amazement, family secrets, including possible crimes, and a terrifying portrait of his loved ones emerge from the past, forcing him to decipher the truth and lead him to the difficult decision to side with one of them. ? How to avoid falling into a wrong judgment? Has your life been a big lie? Daniel has no choice but to fly to Sweden and investigate on his own, although his own identity may be damaged by the truth.
The secret speech
El Niño 44 found continuity in this second part and in the end of a trilogy not yet seen in Spanish. Without the intensity of the first part, which so opportunistically linked the dark worlds of psychopathy with Soviet civil control, in this installment we enjoy a version much more tending to the espionage genre.
Soviet Union, 1956: Stalin's death marks the beginning of the end of a system where the police acted like criminals. Although Khrushchev promises to reform the country, there are forces that are unable to forget or reconcile with the new times. Leo Demidov, a former official in the Ministry for State Security, faces his own past. His daughters, he and his wife, are in grave danger: someone is ruthlessly trying to carry out their own particular revenge.
