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Young undercover cop Érica Sánchez is struggling with everything: her job, a changed Madrid, her personal crusade against sexual abuse and even Sebastián, her boringly normal boyfriend who works as a ministerial chauffeur.
The good old Spain that she longs for seems to exist only in advertising images: Asturias, with its green and peaceful northern mountains. Érica’s covert missions in the city oblige her to assume roles that only add to her existential crisis and lead her into a dangerous trap. And yet it is an unusual assignment for Sebastián, to a remote village in Asturias, that will prove the most serious challenge for them both. For some people, the Spanish Civil War never ended. Spanish noir 280 pages |
"All she had to do was press the button strapped to her thigh. She sat dripping perspiration, her heart thumping. The long weeks of carefully rehearsed preparation with the team were as nothing compared to these last, stifling, lonely minutes.
"She had, or imagined she had, a minor tremble in her right hand. I’m not alright, she realized. There’s no air in here: I need more air.
"Do it, do it, answered her breath, fast and shallow.
She couldn’t pull out now. She had to go through with it. Wait for the moment, squeeze the trigger, and her work would be done.
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