3 best books by JJ Benitez

Juan Jose Benitez perhaps he is the Spanish writer with a greater capacity for thematic deepening, and always leaving a unique mark. Since he began immersing himself in research books about the UFO phenomenon to one of his latest books on Ché Guevara (It also takes variety), his imagination and his research capacity have led us through almost 80 books.

As you can see, a very extensive bibliography that of JJ Benitez that sails between the disturbing waters of truth and fiction, in a sea where the documentation referred to to contrast the assumptions of the exceptional researcher pose a great and interesting challenge for reasoning.

This is so much the case that sometimes I doubt whether what I have been able to read about this author is fiction or journalistic disclosure ... Let's go there with those 3 best novels (or just documentaries, who knows) by JJ Benitez, my essential books for this prolific author.

Recommended books by JJ Benitez

Troy Horse

The arrival of this novel to the publishing market removed the foundations of Spanish literature with its conversion into a bestseller when the term was still a remote idea. I think I am not mistaken if I say that all of us who read this total novel end up giving full certainty that someone could have traveled in time to get closer to Jesus Christ in his last days of life.

The problem is that after these came many more of the series ... and I still have some pending that I have not taken up due to lack of time, not for anything else. Because it was a pleasure to enjoy the journalistic aspect, the undeniable appearance of investigation and documentary foundation that adorned fiction with that aspect of total credibility. Simply fascinating.

As JJ Benítez himself affirms, "to advance the plot and the nature of Caballo de Troya 1 is to break the disconcerting mystery contained in its pages." We can point out, that yes, that for the elaboration of this work, the author has been based on a real documentation, deposited years ago in the United States.

A documentation that reveals a multitude of new data on the figure and work of Jesus of Nazareth. We can assure that as a good part of humanity suspects - the great powers hide many of their space and military projects, and "Trojan Horse" is one more proof of this.

We can reveal, for example, that in 1973 the US Air Forces, after several years of preparation and after countless incidents, carried out one of their "super-secret" projects in the heart of Israel, which was baptized precisely as Operation Horse Troy. But we cannot advance to the reader how this fascinating "confidential" documentation was obtained by JJ Benítez, nor the astonishing development of the aforementioned Operation and its disconcerting ending. It would be breaking the charm of Caballo de Troya 1, the first book testimony of the Navarrese journalist and writer. In the words of the author: "... it will be the future, as happened with Jules Verne, who will reveal whether or not this story was true."

Elisha's Diary

Eleventh installment of a dazzling saga that fascinates lovers of the esoteric, worries fervent believers and, above all, entertains in this hybrid between novel and report with hints of fascinating historical chronicle.

When JJ Benitez It started with Trojan Horse, back in 1984, I was a child and I remember perfectly the growing fondness for the esoteric, whether it was spiritism or UFO phenomena. In the town where he spent his summers not infrequently we “played” with güijas apricots, we even fearfully approached the cemetery with the radio cassette to record psychophonies that finally remained in simple noise with which to suggest ourselves thinking that they could be whispers or laments.

But what we did the most was to go out at night in search of those lights coming from the sky that finally, with our inexhaustible imagination, we assured had landed between the meadows or in the river valley.

The point is that, with my taste for the fantastic, and the atavistic wish that there was always something more, years later I read that first Trojan Horse that left everyone stunned since 1984. I loved reading and reviewing the footnotes that they justified and provided foundations and credibility. He enjoyed the final account made chronicle of the greatest journey ever undertaken, that of current researchers to the days of Jesus Christ.

The truth is that I did not end up reading all the deliveries that later arrived. But this time I couldn't help going through Elisha's diary. That "diary" reminded me of the initial sensation of the saga, of that plot made memories of its protagonists, led by JJ Benitez himself, as heir to the momentous operation.

And there was the thing, without a doubt. A novel with a symphony of reunion with the original work. With its flashes of science fiction, journalism and religion in a captivating narrative melting pot.

Our protagonist this time is Eliseo, a member of the time travel operation. And with him we walked for more than two years in the company of Jesus and his future apostles, discovering new apocryphal interventions and preparing a performance that had long been discussed by the promoters of such a special operation ...

The great yellow catastrophe

Few authors in the world do the job of writing a magical space as they get it JJ Benitez. A place inhabited by writer and readers where reality and fiction share accessible rooms with the keys to each new book.

Between the magic and the marketing, between the puzzling and the fascinating. All always thanks to a virtuous ability to narrate on the edge of the impossible, holding their narratives with firm bases of realism to end up unleashing them as if there were no gravity that could hold the facts to our daily space.

On this occasion we seem to meet again the journalist of the Trojan Horses, about to introduce ourselves fully into the mechanism that makes the world go round. From his days of confinement on a ship, Benitez has enshrined the modern curse of the pandemic with causes more prosaic than some ill-fated designs marked by any divinity. The whole of the work works as a kind of hook with his previous book about the Gog that haunts us for very close dates ...

Hours before leaving for his second round the world tour, JJ Benítez receives a letter from the US The letter is open, but not read. Juanjo embarks on the Costa Deliziosa and, in full navigation, the coronavirus pandemic arises. What was presented as a pleasure trip turns into chaos. The writer keeps a logbook in which he records the incidents of each day.

First appear the characters, the unique stories of people of more than 10 nationalities of the world united by the desire to have fun and live life. Little by little the emotional themes and the fear of contagion that set off all the alarms are coming to the story. In the background, the investigation and the questions that a person of Benítez's brilliance always raises.

The great yellow catastrophe it's a dizzying mix of adventure, conversation, fear, and hope. Upon returning to Spain, Benítez reads the letter from California and is stunned. Nothing is what it seems. The end of the book is heart-stopping.

Other interesting books by the indefatigable JJ Benitez…

Yahweh's Wars

Call it anything except chance or absolute ignorance. The question is to give shape to a superior entity capable of creating a Universe that, otherwise, remains rocked at the risk of a sinister black scenario. Based on that, each religion shaped its God. And no more powerful argument than that of a God created to defend it even above homelands or families.

But in the face of the doubt about who made whom, if he made us or we made him, the notion that if we are not in a predefined center of the cosmos, any other form of life can be out there light years away. or just seconds away from shopping around. And then our most common vectors of time and space offered by God could break into a thousand pieces.

With Las guerras de Yavé, JJ Benítez returns to the Old Testament to break with the universal truths that surround our idea of ​​God. In Las Guerras de Yavé, JJ Benítez confronts millions of believers in the Jewish, Christian, Protestant and Muslim religions. In an exhaustive study, the Navarrese researcher analyzes the Old Testament in light of the current UFO phenomenon. The conclusion is devastating: Yavé was not God. To tell the truth, no one ever spoke so clearly about the Bible.

in black and white

They say that literature can be expiation, resilience, sublimation or escape route. Writing loss is sharing for everyone who likes to make literature everything between narration and the ultimate omniscient narrator, such as the author stripped down from the soul...

In Blanca y negro it is a tribute to Blanca, the woman who helped Juanjo Benítez to cross the street of life for almost 40 years. It is the diary of an extreme experience: the last 280 days in the life of JJ Benítez's wife. The book runs between fear and hope. As always in the work of the Navarrese writer, the best must be discovered between the lines. In short: a book for beginners.

A raw, intimate, exciting and brutal work that shows us the author's vulnerabilities

For your Eyes Only

An essential book for the staunch followers of this unparalleled writer. A work that compiles all the work of decades after the UFO phenomenon. What began as a longing for knowledge back in the 70s and 80s, within the entire transition towards freedom of expression and knowledge in post-Franco Spain, ended up being a vital leitmotif that continued to lead the author towards new and extensive research. . In September 2016, JJ Benítez turns 70 and 45 years of UFO research.

At the moment he is one of the most veteran investigators. Coinciding with these two anniversaries, the author writesFor your Eyes Only as a commemorative work, after 22 books on the subject. It includes 300 totally unpublished UFO cases, registered around the world, which for one reason or another impacted on the researcher. This book, full of interest and curiosity, is completed with more than 300 original drawings, extracted from the author's field notebooks.

I got dad

Che Guevara has a lot of myth. Always justified, of course, although perhaps crushed by the marketing of t-shirts, posters and slogans. That is why this book is appreciated, focused on the reality that surrounded Che Guevara, especially when he was about to leave this world that he stepped on with the firmness of one who only gave himself up to his freedom.

It should be noted that a liberating guerrilla will never be a fraternal commune. There are weapons and there are decisions directly attributable to Che. And there were deaths and revenge. That is why this mythical combatant is soon considered that saint to be venerated or that demon to be denigrated. Benitez leaves from October 8, 1967 to try to shed light on his documentation work. On that day, Ché was captured and confined pending a summary trial.

The truth had to be found in those days. The polarization that the arrest of the great leader entailed had to be synthesized, distilled to raise another type of more objective judgment, that of the passing of the years and the light of the facts. And that's where we move forward with this book. We approached those who finished him, during the hours before his last expiration. Years of journalistic work to delve into still valid testimonies and with enough perspective to analyze what happened in those days. Fundamental notions of each other towards the final reconstruction of the saint or the devil ...

Gog: start the countdown

Gog has always been there, waiting for his moment. The apocalypse is his party, and we are all invited to it.

This book is one of those real stories made in Benitez, between the novel and the exhaustively documented (remember Trojan Horse and its footnotes where everything was perfectly referenced). And what one enjoys when approaching this book, not as extensive as the immeasurable set of Trojan Horse but as powerful as this one.

That there is an end to our civilization, there is no doubt. Nothing remains. If it is not the final shutdown of the sun, it will be that our ball is eaten by a black hole. Or that the universe stops expanding and some planets begin to collide with each other due to the inertia of the movement finally stopped by a God tired of playing with his toy during the millennia that can compose just one of its seconds ...

JJ Benitez knows it better than anyone. There is an end for everyone. The end can be documented as soon as a journalist with a prodigious imagination turns black on white. The question is, as announced at the launch of the book, if we want to know what that twilight of the world will be like, perhaps to write our list of things to do.

For now, before you start reading the book, you should know that the matter is closer than you can imagine. And if you still insist on turning the pages of this story between the apocalyptic and what is necessary for the just silence of the world, prepare that old notebook next to the book. Go writing down those pending things and take advantage of the fact that the narration is not so extensive to give a full answer to your final wishes ...