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Érica Sánchez works undercover for the Madrid police, slipping between identities she despises, angry and distrustful of a country she no longer recognizes.
Her partner Sebastián—decent, devout and painfully naïve—offers the stability she cannot find in herself. A past that Érica has tried to bury resurfaces, and her darkest hour comes as her work drags her down a spiral of violence, sexual abuse and personal disintegration. Yet it is a seemingly harmless errand for Sebastián, to picture book mountains, that will lead to the most unpredictable and perilous place of all. literary thriller 290 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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