The best legacy that some traveling parents end up leaving is that vital baggage made of a changing scenario and diverse argumentation to understand the world and to dare to tell it. And of course that in the case of a writer is the abc.
The Posadas brothers testify to this creative background from the established traveling spirit, perhaps not since the beginning of an overly itinerant childhood, with the passing of the years and that comfortable traveling through the world as if everything could be home.
About Carmen Posadas placeholder image I already spoke at the time. Now it's time to give a court to a Gervasio Posadas that in the merely popular he lives in the shadow of his sister, although literarily he begins to mark a firm step, perhaps already with greater repercussion than those of his older sister.
Novels with traces of historical fiction but full of mystery, forays into children's literature, volumes of pleasant satire and humor and collaborations also with Carmen for a changing bibliography between genres, although breaking towards that hybrid between mystery and historical scenery always well received by the readers.
Top 3 recommended novels by Gervasio Posadas
Hitler's Mentalist
Here, the undersigned also made his first steps in taking a Hitler as a character in a novel. The character's hook fits perfectly into a literature in which everything must have a place, even the most ominous. Only in this work the leading role ends up shifting towards a singular tandem, the one formed by the journalist José Ortega and the mentalist Eric Jan Hanussen. In the second case, brought from a reality that in those misty 30s disturbed, disconcerted and fascinated.
They both know each other in Berlin. There, José will witness the exploits of the mentalist whose predictions make him one of the great stars of the entertainment world of the time, a billionaire and, surprisingly, one of the main supporters of the Nazi party, reaching close relationships with personalities like Goebbels, Göring and even Hitler himself.However, Hanussen hides a secret that will put him in a serious commitment to his new friends, which will threaten his reputation and even his life.
Gervasio Posadas immerses us in the Germany of the 30s with a masterful narrative style and reveals an unknown face to the history of Nazism, the portrait of a real character who in the shadows came to handle the strings of Hitler's machinery and who predicted his coming to power.
The merchant of death
Every great character ends up demanding more life, new opportunities. That is what happens with José Ortega who makes his journalistic profession magnetism to discover always surprising realities, witnessed as disturbing secrets reached by the author. Because beyond literature, the good translation to the field of the novel, the facts They are what they are, and many of them occurred as they happened parallel to the great events, except that seeing everything with the focus of expired time we wonder if the anecdotal does not end up being the substrate of the transcendent.
The journalist José Ortega travels to Monaco with the hope of making a report that will allow him to regain the prestige lost after years as a correspondent in Berlin.In Monte Carlo he will come into contact with Basil Zaharoff, the most mysterious millionaire in Europe at that time, and he will soon discover that the secrets that the old man keeps are coveted by many who will stop at nothing to achieve their goal.
Gervasio Posadas returns to the literary scene with a magnificent novel set in the turbulent Monte Carlo between the wars and based on real events that has all the necessary ingredients of an exciting historical thriller: an enigmatic old man surrounded by a black legend, a narrator trapped between obligation and convenience, murders, famous people from the high society of the 30s...
The secret of gazpacho
The whole world has always been maddened by the formula for coca cola. But the quiz of everything is in the secret of the gazpacho, much healthier and more changeable depending on who believes in possession of the perfect gazpacho.
Between the gazpacho and the coca cola there is everything else. The great advertisers know it ... At the time we already talked about a Beigbeder who took advantage of his departure from the publi scene to speak with that frankness of those who leave the ship.
On this occasion, a Gervasio Posadas does something similar, who also learned about the lyrical composition of slogans with which unsuspecting buyers of anything can grasp.Satire of advertising, self-help books, the occult, cyber dating, historical enigma novels with Templars and Rosicrucians, The Secret of Gazpacho contains in its pages more humor than the craziest comedy and more adventures than the wildest thriller .
Rodrigo Alonso, a successful advertising man who has already passed the barrier of forty, sees that the golden age of advertising belongs to the past. His crisis worsens and ends with the abandonment of the agency where he works.While he is uselessly concentrating on writing a self-help book on the man of our time, he finds himself involved in the conspiracy of a Pythagorean sect that wants to dominate the world and that mistakes him for the reincarnation of its mythical founder.
From that moment on, he will find himself involved in a whirlwind of crazy misfortunes ... »A succession of graces and misfortunes that reflect the advertising and social world» Babelia.