Moscas

What do clouds smell like? The clouds in this novel smell of rot. The murder of an investigative journalist on the island of Mallorca, and the clumsy series of actions and reactions it sets off are the thread that runs through this audacious novel. A magnificent thriller that, with a concise style and profound knowledge of the subject matter, depicts the relationships that form the warp and weft of corruption in Spain. A tough novel, in many aspects violent, as one might expect since the narrative voice is close to that of the main character, a police office hardened in the sewers of the anti-terrorism struggle, with more than his fair share of testosterone.