In times of pandemic, any approach devised by a crime novel writer or science fiction takes on new appearances of verisimilitude. In parallel, the sense of claim of the darkest arguments may magnetize us with greater intensity when the sinister looms over us as soon as we observe with full consciousness. In that of observing what happens with intensity Javier Castillo he is already a proven teacher ...
We continue on this occasion in the terrain of suspense made in Castillo, where the environment can be seen as suffocating from an already explosive start. And again a city of New York with its quality, in the hands of this author, to become a cosmopolis also of the sinister. And it is that New York never sleeps, only in the hands of Javier Castillo one after another joins in the worst imaginable nightmares ...
Synopsis
New York, 2011. A fifteen-year-old girl is found crucified in a suburban church on the outskirts. Miren Triggs, investigative journalist from the Manhattan press, unexpectedly receives a strange envelope. Inside, a Polaroid of a girl gagged and bound, with a single notation: «GINA PEBBLES, 2002Miren Triggs and Jim Schmoer, her former journalism teacher, will follow the trail of the girl in the photo as they investigate the New York crucifixion. Thus, they will enter a religious institution where everything is secret and they will have to decipher three questions whose answers seem impossible. What happened to Gina? Who sent the Polaroid? Are the two stories connected?
After selling more than 1.000.000 copies of his previous novels, Javier Castillo he places the pieces of a disturbing thriller on the table and introduces the reader to a dangerous game in which the most precious is wagered; a novel that plays with the dice of faith and deception, of love and pain, with strange rituals and a dark secret that, if discovered, can change everything.
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