THE FINAL NOVEL FROM THE GREATEST SPANISH WRITER OF HIS GENERATION,
JAVIER MARIAS 'The most subtle and gifted writer in contemporary
Spanish literature' Boston Globe 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: a favour for
Tupra, for old times' sake, which is also a favour for a powerful
Spanish friend. 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. Everything about the
assignment is shadowy - from who exactly Nevinson will be working
for to the question of what 'justice' he may need to mete out if he
is somehow able to unmask one of the three women. But, still in his
forties and lured by the appeal of once again being on the inside,
he accepts the job. As he gets closer to the three women, his task
becomes ever harder. How - or who - to choose between these three?
Intimately involved with each of them, as lover, colleague or
friend, he can find no firm clue to resolve the question. But under
increasing pressure from his paymasters, choose - and act - he
apparently must . . . Charting a world where right and wrong, and
good and evil, are irreparably blurred, Javier Marias takes us on a
journey of rare and unforgettable suspense in this, the final novel
written before his untimely passing in 2022. PRAISE FOR JAVIER
MARIAS: 'Unquestionably the most significant Spanish writer of his
generation' Observer '[Marias] uses language like an anatomist uses
a scalpel to lay bare the innermost secrets of that strangest of
species, the human being' W. G. Sebald 'One of the greatest
contemporary novelists' Le Monde 'A great writer' Salman Rushdie
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