Among that select plethora of prolific Spanish authors, John Madrid acquires a special relevance. Because this great author writes about everything and everything, combining themes and developing with special mastery between genres police and black.
Under the umbrella of his degree in Contemporary History and his work as a journalist, screenwriter and even film director, this author is accompanied by a cultural background with which to undertake so many narrative proposals that almost reach 50 works today .
For all this read novels by Juan Madrid is an exercise in approaching spaces of our reality from the most complete perspective and with an overflowing imagination at the service of a narrative tension and rhythm sustained in brilliant dialogues and the right brushstrokes of that exhaustive knowledge of reality by the author.
Top 3 best novels by Juan Madrid
Borrowed time
The countdown begins the moment you allow absolute chaos to rule your destiny. Without a doubt we are subjected to the risk of our mortal condition, but our decisions lead us sooner or later to the abyss.
I'm not talking about quitting smoking, it's about characters who seek the limits. Ideologies assumed until the last consequences or the absolute emptiness ... And the extreme poles in the end are furiously attracted.
Antonio is from ETA and Charo is a young woman imbued with the frenzy of the Madrid scene. Both move towards self-destruction with the same conviction, only based on different prisms. While Antonio is in charge of gathering information for his terrorist organization, he also lets himself be carried away by Charo.
Together they discover that acid awakening to the last blows of the movement. But the bitter awakening can also take away Antonio, practically discovered in his role as mole for some new terrorist act. Love and cruel realities, deformed by youth taken to the extreme in one of its great virtues: restlessness.
Sleeping dogs
History to three times. Since 2011 and going back to 1938 and 1945. Three times that bring to the present a very personal legacy for Juan Delforo, the protagonist of the novel.
But in his legacy, Juan Delforo also collects a crucial testimony for the understanding of the construction of a country, Spain, whose current reality is indebted to its secrets, its fratricidal battles and its more or less true spirit of reconciliation. Juan Delforo is a writer, and Dimas Prado is in charge of delivering him the most transcendental of arguments.
A great little story that the young writer will discover astonished. Something worth writing, while the very pages of his life are completely rewritten before the gradual discovery.
The moment of receipt of the legacy and its meaning is linked to the period of the Spanish Civil War, and also with the postwar period. But in this book Sleeping dogs We are not presented with a war plot, rather it is a process of mimetization with the greatness and miseries of the human being during those moments in which he is involved in difficult times.
Dimas Prado, Falangist and former police officer. Juan Delforo, Republican by birth and former anti-fascist militant. It is not about looking for an impossible communion. But we do end up finding out what can link them.
A writer always ends up succumbing to a good story, even if it involves him deeply and makes him face his deepest contradictions, emerging from an unknown past to an unexpected present.
A leisurely intrigue of linked scenarios in an unpredictable temporal evolution, but as real and natural as the lives of all its characters, which beats strong and fascinates you with its nuances, with its iron truths about an absolutely variable human condition of the greatest goodness to the lowest filth.
The past of Juan Delforo and Dimas Prado is firmly linked, and is made up of enigmatic moments, of unspeakable moments, always watched over by those dogs that sleep in their conscience.
Wet men are not afraid of the rain
Liberto Ruano, protagonist of this novel and representative of the prototypical real life character endowed with absolute double standards. As a lawyer, he is a recognized and valued man. Some of his close ones know of his fondness for easy love and the nocturnal routes through the cities of peacefully asleep inhabitants.
Until a prostitute appears death and a video commits him directly. Whoever was able to arm this plan against him belongs to some time in his past. There is always someone who wants to take revenge on his lawyer.
An ordinary thief might look for him with a knife, a powerful businessman or banker always has much more effective and harmful alternatives ... Only that Liberto, in all this time between two waters, those of law firms and those of the slums, also has his tools defense…
