An original story of love, humour and death, by the best-selling author of Mongo Blanco (Premio Espartaco 2020)
Fortunato is a contract killer. He is cultured, elegant and discrete. When he is hired to get rid of a corrupt politician, he recalls his childhood, how he felt the violence growing within him, and what he did to control and use it – according to him – for his own good and that of others. But this sentimental education is just the start of a journey that will take him to the darkest and most violent corners of our society and force him to reconsider his own role in it. Across the decades, his odyssey will take him all over the world, from Madrid to New York, Zanzibar, Baghdad, Stockholm and Morocco. And this is also the story of a murderer in love, a picture of a relationship. Will he be prepared to sacrifice the love of his life to pursue his ideals to their conclusion? Will this be his last assignment?
In prose that is full of irony and intelligence, Carlos Bardem paints a portrait of a complex, charismatic anti-hero trapped in a society dominated by immorality and corruption.
Spain: Plaza y janés 3rd of June 2021
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