The fireproof Cesar Perez Gellida it reinvents itself once again to give birth to one of its most complete works. After abounding in the current black genre, through trilogies that are already emblematic of the genre in our country, this time he offers us a retrospective setting for a black narrative with streaks of the espionage genre and with a point of historical fiction. The result is one of those magical combinations that suddenly appear to surprise and fascinate readers.
It is the good thing about this black genre, that it combines well with suspense and that it can be located at any moment in history. Because in the end these types of stories only reflect the dark side of the soul, the motives that can lead human beings to crime ...
Do you remember the cold war? Undoubtedly a historical period of brilliant metaphor to define a state of frozen conflict, just waiting to gain temperature to end up exploding over the whole world. The space race, the arms race, espionage. Strange times those, with a peak of intensity between the 50s and 60s that threatened civilization because everything pointed to the final confrontation.
And that is where Pérez Gellida takes us in this novel, with an undeniable punch to the John le Carré. We get into the personality of Viktor Lavrov, an agent of the KGB, of that terrible bad side that they sold us from the United States. The young agent receives a mission of substance in which he must show his skills to pull the thread in any crime that points to espionage or secret investigations. In his assignment, Viktor will have to interact with the East German criminal police.
And this is how you will learn about a heinous case of chain murders in which the victims are innocent girls. It is in those moments in which the human ends up flourishing above any professionalism. And this is how Viktor will end up getting involved in solving the sinister case of the girls, whose repercussions will be much greater than he could ever have imagined ...
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