After the lady number thirteen that already I reviewed here, José Carlos Somoza is back. And it does so with a half-fiction, half-reality thriller, which turns the narrative proposal into a chilling fictionalized tale of a very close reality.
The vicissitudes of a Spanish spy center this point of psychological tension. His movements in the shadows of the regime serve as a gloomy foothold for the current reality in which a famous writer who is handed a manuscript moves. Everything that happened to Ángel Carvajal, a Falangist soldier and spy, or at least everything he wanted to tell, was witnessed in that book.
Perhaps the writer should not have accepted the proposal. As soon as he decided to read the book, he learned of truths that he might not want to know and that place him in the middle of a whirlwind of hidden realities and secrets of dark consequences until today.
A suggestive story that links the world of espionage in the mid-twentieth century with the sustenance of political and social news. All linked by means of a Machiavellian book, of a testimony that seemed to be looking for the right person to be read.
Official synopsis: José Carlos Somoza returns to the genre of thriller his greatest hits with a true story of a Spanish spy in North Africa in the 50s.
A well-known writer receives a mysterious manuscript from a bookseller friend. There are more than two hundred pages, typewritten and dated 1957. The order is very precise: it must be read in less than 24 hours.
Intrigued, the novelist begins to read and comes across a story of secrets and betrayals told by Ángel Carvajal, a Spanish Falange military man who acted as a spy in North Africa.
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