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One-Eye Durán leaves prison after 5 years, but he feels old and washed-up. Betrayed by his old gang, he soon makes a name for himself once more in a corrupt and hostile city. Extorsion, bribery and drugs trafficking are his calling card. One-Eye only understands one language: violence. And he's an expert.
In 1913 the presidente of El Salvador, Manuel Enrique Araujo, was killed with a machete by a group of uneducated country farmers who didn't entirely realise who they were killing. Together with them, an ex-army officer is also arrested, who shot and wounded Presidente Araujo during the bloody crime that took place in a park in the centre of the capital.
Pérez Domínquez gives us an unforgettable story inhabited by disenchanted heroes, enigmatic women and frantic persecutions, where love reveals itself as the holy grail which is able to redeem all the characters. A moving spy novel in the style of Graham Green's writing which Pérez Domínguez translates to the Madrid and Seville of the 1950s with ease.
Carmelo returns to the village in his native Andalusia for the first time. Thirty years ago his mother took him way from there when he was only three years old, fleeing after witnessing a horrific event which would condition his life and everyone's who lived there during the days of General Franco's uprising.
Leonid Sednev, imperial chimney sweep and later kitchen help, was fifteen years old on the night of the 17th July 1918, when a group of soldiers of the Bolshevik Revolution brutally murdered the Russian imperial family. Leonid was the only survivor and invisible witness to the tragedy.
A gripping novel that links Prague to Washington, South Yemen, Damascus, Paris, Sitges, Madrid, Havana, Berlin, Geneva and Panama. A story in which fiction and historical factsare mixed with real and fictional characters. A story that reveals the ins and outs of international espionage and which we will never know for sure whether it really happened, although everything is possible...
The Sack Men are immersed in a gruesome and shadowy fairy story, 33 stories divided into three parts. A corrosive and amoral satire about human emotions, cloaked in dark, insane and apocalyptic humour. In short: a dreamlike and demented retelling of some of our childhood tales. Now stained with discourtesy and causticity.
The narrative begins with the discovery of a body in the swamp in Olba. The protagonist, Esteban, has been forced to close the furniture shop he owned, leaving his workers jobless and on the dole.