The alter ego of Benjamín Prado (or the transcript from the pseudonym that signed some of his articles) Juan Urbano, continues with his new life of fuller fiction. To become an essential character in today's novels.
A new case of Juan Urbano in the last days of the Second Republic.
"I want you to track her down, find her, find out her story, tell it to me, and then forget about it."
In 1936, three Spanish athletes attended the Winter Olympics held in Nazi Germany. Three young lovers of skiing and excursions to the mountains, who were studying at the university and passionately living the Madrid of the Second Republic. When their world disappeared, their names were erased, for ideological or moral reasons. Nothing was heard from one of them. Neither alive nor dead.
And it is Juan Urbano who, many years later, the son of that disappeared woman entrusts to solve the case. His research reveals an intricate history of medical scandals, psychiatric hospitals turned into prisons and manipulated biographies that runs through Spain of the Residence for Young Ladies and the Institute-School, that of the playwrights and comedians of The Quail. With it, an addictive police plot is unleashed, sometimes of terror, which leads to an unimaginable end.
For Juan Urbano, in addition, another resurrection takes place, when the woman who had broken his heart returns to his life and who now seems ready to make him happy. But we know that everything is carried by the devil.
You can now buy the novel «Everything is loaded by the devil», by Benjamín Prado, here: