Tomas Nevinson

''No-one nowadays writes prose like Javier Marías . . . If you''re already a fan, you''ll know what to expect and rejoice. If you''re not, what a treat you have in store'' The Herald

Spain in the 1990s is beset by a simmering campaign of terror from Basque separatists ETA, with periodic atrocities shattering an illusory calm. Against this backdrop, retired British Secret Service member Tomas Nevinson - now living a quiet life in his hometown Madrid - is approached by his sinister former handler, Bertram Tupra, with an offer to bring him back in from the cold, for one last assignment.

His mission: to go back undercover, in a small Spanish town, to find out which of three women who moved there a decade ago is in fact an ETA terrorist, on loan from the IRA, now on the run and living there incognito.

Charting a world where right and wrong, and good and evil, are irreparably blurred, Javier Marías takes us on a journey of rare and unforgettable suspense in this, the final novel written before his untimely death in 2022.

Translated by Margaret Jull Costa

''The last word from a master . . . once you''ve been inside Marías'' world, to spend too long outside is unbearable'' The Sunday Times

''A twisting espionage tale shot through with slantwise humour . . . seductive and inescapably poignant'' Observer<>

Produktdetails

• Autoren: Javier Marías
• Mitarbeit: Margaret Jull Costa (Nachwort), Margaret Jull Costa (Übersetzung)
• Verlag: Penguin Books Uk
• Sprache: Englisch
• Produktform: Taschenbuch
• Erschienen: 21.03.2024
• EAN: 9780241568637
• ISBN: 978-0-241-56863-7
• Seiten: 684
• Abmessung: 129 mm x 198 mm x 35 mm
• Themen: Belletristik > Spannung; Sachbuch > Philosophie, Religion > Biographien, Autobiographien; FICTION / Crime, Crime & mystery, Spain, Fiction in translation, FICTION / Thrillers / Suspense, Crime and mystery fiction, C 1980 To C 1990, c 1980 to c 1989, Modern and contemporary Fiction (post 1945), Madrid (City)