From time to time I like to watch one of those typical road movies. It is suggestive to empathize with those characters from lost directions who simply go through their lives aboard a car. Unique experiences and a point of disconnection with the real world to unravel the reasons for these existential roaming along lonely roads.
Similar happens with this book The dark path to mercy. In fact, a good road novice can achieve a higher degree of empathy. Imagination is what you have, you put the images of the empty roads and the noise of the car, you complement with the sensations of the lowered windows and the evocation of your hands at the wheel ...
So you can become, with more force, the character of Wade Quillby, a guy who lost his life horizon years ago, and who has given his life to crime, with a remarkable armed robbery of an armored car, where he could amassing multi-million dollar loot.
But Wade can't stop thinking about what he left behind before succumbing to that escape to nowhere. When he left home he did so out of a feeling of boredom that bordered on despair. Its existence is restricted to four walls too close together. His spirit did not fit there and he had to leave.
But now the memory of his two abandoned daughters returns with force asking for some kind of recomposition. In his flight from himself he has lost years of the lives of his little ones and something pushes him to seek that compensation.
Of course, once with the girls in his car and embarking on a new trip to nowhere on lonely American roads, he will have to face so many pending accounts of his years of delinquency.
Then we discover the man who wants not to be who he was, and who only intends to extend that route without a map on roads that never end, thus seeking to eternalize the moment, to stretch a time shared with his daughters between changing landscapes to the rhythm of the wheels of the car. Undoubtedly, the vital contradiction in which he moves makes it impossible for him to know how to find that peace, that reconciliation with his daughters and with himself. Among the dangers that will haunt him, he will always continue to flee, knowing that he does not have much time left, and thinking that on board his car a dreamed place may appear at some point, a space without past or memory ...
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