La nueva voz de la novela policiaca en espa ol. Un inteligente y rotundo debut a la altura de los grandes del g nero negro. Solo el rechinar de las cigarras perturba el apacible y familiar verano de San Lorenzo de El Escorial. Y es en plena ola de calor cuando, en el cuarto de calderas de una casa herreriana, aparece un hombre maniatado y muerto por deshidrataci n, con la vista fija en una botella de agua que cuelga del techo. La teniente Karen Blecker --reci n llegada a Espa a tras trabajar casi toda su carrera para la Europol-- y el particular brigada Cano deber n esclarecer la identidad de esa v ctima a quien nadie parece conocer. Y los evidentes paralelismos con un crimen cometido dos d cadas atr s los obligar n a escarbar en los dolorosos a os de plomo del terrorismo... ENGLISH DESCRIPTIONThe new voice in detective novels in Spanish. A smart smashing debut, worthy of the greatest noir figures. Only the whirring of the cicadas disturbs the peaceful family summer at San Lorenzo de El Escorial. We are in the middle of a heat wave when, inside the boiler room of a Herrerian house, a man is found dead of dehydration and tied up, with his eyes fixed on a bottle of water hanging by the ceiling. Lieutenant Karen Blecker--recently arrived in Spain after working for Europol for most of her career--and officer Cano must uncover the identity of the victim, whom nobody seems to know. And the evident parallels with a different crime, perpetrated two decades prior, will force them to dig into the painful lead years of terrorism...
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