The world passes to the rhythm of a giant crime novel. Hand in hand with globalization, the dark scenarios that not so long ago the authors of crime novels were in charge of transferring to fiction, have taken a qualitative leap. The world is the market to be corrupted by the mafias. The control of absolute power seeks more sophisticated intervention systems and with greater penetration in decision-making bodies.
Petros Markaris was among the first to portray in fiction what is simmering in reality. From Greece to the world. The emblematic Hellenic country, a European paradigm of the crisis, seems to have become a bargaining chip for spurious interests. Any attempt of rebellion against the assumption of slavery at the cost of the debt contracted tends to be stifled by the media, without forgetting other resources if it were necessary to resort to force.
To read "Offshore" is to think about how far the current power can go to subdue wills contrary to its interests. To what extent is current legality allowed to be such legality and if the police can investigate everything.
Never has evil had so many facilities to materialize. And never has the crime novel been so close to literature as a social commitment to narrate what no one tells.
El famous curator Jaritos, with which this author has already triumphed throughout the world, he will never be able to suspect to what extent the lack of control is hidden under the guise of democracy, with its supposed spirit of popular will.
The great virtues of today's mafias are the great vices and defects of manipulation between over- and misinformation.
In short, Offshore is a murder thriller with all the flavor of a great crime novel. The question is whether fictions like this will be considered historical works at some future point.
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