With properly cultivated emotions decanted over many years, the next thing is to sing and sing for any "leader" who is set to lead the herd. Others before had the patience and pampering to graft hatred and feelings of differentiation onto repellency. with whom he can easily atone for his own sins. The new "leaders" just have to persist, taking advantage in the meantime for the most indecent advancement.
And yes, the matter of separatism and its derivatives is very appropriate for someone like Javier Fences delve again into a particular world of politicians made totem poles, with their carte blanche and their adoring blind people (justice version but the other way around). In fact the crime novel and even more so the crime novel with a Catalan cradle like that of Vazquez Montalban o Gonzalez Ledesma it has always been about undressing miseries and uncovering corruption ultimately surpassed by reality.
For the occasion, nobody better than a Melchor Marín already made a memorable protagonist since his appearance in Terra Alta. A protagonist made in Cercas that surpasses each new plot ...
Synopsis
How to confront those who wield power in the shadows? How to get revenge on those who have done you the most harm? Melchor Marín returns. And he returns to Barcelona, where he is claimed to investigate a glassy case: they are blackmailing the mayor of the city with a sex video.
Burdened with his regret for not having found his mother's murderers, but also with his inflexible sense of justice and his rocky moral integrity, Melchor must dismantle an extortion that it is not known whether it pursues simple economic gain or political destabilization, And to do so, he enters the circles of power, a place where cynicism, unscrupulous ambition and corrupt brutality reign.
Over there, this absorbing and wild novel, populated by a plethora of memorable characters, becomes a devastating portrait of Barcelona's political-economic elite, but above all in a furious plea against the tyranny of the owners of money and the masters of the world.
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