Excuse, defense, deception, pathology in the worst case. The lie is a strange space of coexistence of the human being, assuming our contradictory nature.
And the lie can also be conformed as the most premeditated concealment. Bad issue when it becomes imperative to hide reality for the survival of the construct of our world.
Much has been written about lying. Because treason is born from her, the worst secrets, even crime. Hence the reader's magnetism towards this type of argument.
So we start by mentioning the bicha from the title of this novel by Mikel Santiago, impregnating the protagonist with the defect made the essence of his being. Only in this case the lie accepts intriguing folds in this case, the double somersault of this novel adds a supervening amnesia to make everything more rare and prepare us to release so much tension that accumulates on each page.
From Shari lapena but also Federico Axat passing through many other writers, all of them pull amnesia to offer us that play of light and shadow that suspense readers enjoy so much.
But going back to "The Liar" ... what will he have to tell us about his great falsehood? Because logically the lie is the essence of suspense, of the thriller through which we move on the edge of suspicion of that great deception about to drop the curtain.
Michael Santiago he breaks the limits of psychological intrigue with a story that explores the fragile frontiers between memory and amnesia, truth and lies.
In the first scene, the protagonist wakes up in an abandoned factory next to the corpse of an unknown man and a stone with traces of blood. When he flees, he decides to try to piece together the facts himself. However, he has a problem: he barely remembers anything that happened in the last forty-eight hours. And what little he does know is better not to tell anyone.
This is how this starts thriller which takes us to a coastal town in the Basque Country, between winding roads on the edge of cliffs and houses with walls cracked by stormy nights: a small community where, only apparently, no one has secrets from anyone.
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