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An undercover cop. A village lost in time. And a secret that no one must ever know.
Érica is a troubled police agent; her boyfriend, Sebastián, an unruffled ministerial driver. In a Madrid where old values and modernity clash, their jobs take them places where the normal rules no longer apply. Existential thriller, political fable and vivid satire, this immersion in the Spanish psyche reveals a dark landscape, where the world that Érica and Sebastián thought that they knew has other ideas for them. a Spanish 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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