Parkinson's doesn't burst in - it conspires. A long, dirty, premeditated crime. The body spends decades dropping clues, but no one sees them. Or no one wants to. In this autopsy without a corpse, neurologist Rafael Gonz lez Maldonado reopens the file. A sluggish gut, a sense of smell vanishing like smoke, dreams turning into night-time brawls - the evidence starts twenty years before the first tremor. The suspects pile up. Pesticides with the stench of dead fields. Crooked genes, like family thugs. A treacherous microbiome, double agent on the body's frontier. Even civilisation - that lady in a steel corset - has something to hide. But genes only load the gun. They don't pull the trigger. Meanwhile, a few unlikely allies - almost noir heroes - might just lend a hand. The constipated teenager. The dystonic pianist. A farmer with no mask. The migrant who traded poverty for illness. And the woman who leapt from her chair at the smell of fire. They all wear the clues stitched into their skin. And they remind us of what medicine, comfortable in its glass tower, chose to forget: the nervous system remembers everything. Even what no one wants remembered. This is not a book of laments. It's an invitation to follow the case. And the killer - at last, damn him - is starting to talk.
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