A young 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.
Psychological thriller, political fable and vivid satire, this immersion in the Spanish psyche reveals a dark landscape, where the world that Érica and Sebastián thought they knew has other ideas for them.
a Spanish thriller • 290 pages
Autorentext
Former teacher and scarecrow Guy Arthur Simpson writes novels and stories of mystery, speculation and curious adventure.
He graduated from Oxford and went backpacking in the Americas and India, before settling in Spain.
He lives between the mountains and the ocean in Andalucia.
Klappentext
Meet undercover cop, Erica Sánchez.
Orthodox Muslim, anti-system rebel, conventional girlfriend: she is all and none of these.
Erica longs to exchange a gruelling Madrid summer for the peaceful mountains of Asturias.
But when she flees danger in the city to join her boyfriend there, the old Spain holds an unthinkable secret.
For some people, the Spanish Civil War never ended.
novel ~ 285 pages