New Spanish Titles - Spring 2011 - E

Solidarity, the art of advertising and new technologies derived from the internet are the battlefield for "Enemy Army", a novel that is almost obscenely up to date.

On the afternoon that Otto and Clea arrive in the Buenavista retirement home, no one can imagine that what these two elderly people bring with them is more than the weight of two lives worn by time and age. Not even Ilona, the young carer who spends her days with them, has an idea what those three months with them will mean for her life.

On May 4th, 2001, Antonio Altarriba's father committed suicide. So ended a life marked by failure and frustration. Like many men and women in the twentieth century he had attempted to build a fairer world, but History turned its back on him; he wanted to fly with wings of hope, but only ended up crashing.

M.Y., contract killer and great hypochondriac, is to kill Eduardo Blaisten. His mysterious client remains in the shadows, but this doesn't worry Mr Y, who defines himself as a Kantian style assassin, killing scrupulously, with efficiency and elegance, while always respecting the privacy of his paymaster.There is just one small problem: Mr M.Y. is going to die that very day.