Even the Darkest Night

Resumen del libro

"A gem of a book, easily the best I've read this year. A contemporary police procedural with a literary edge. I was rooting for the flawed, but deeply compassionate Melchor Marin from the first page to the last.

Highly recommended" M W Craven

A Terra Alta Investigation. Winner of Spain's biggest literary prize - the Premio Planeta

When Melchor goes to investigate the horrific double-murder of a rich printer and his wife in rural Cataluna nothing quite adds up. The young cop from the big city, hero of a foiled terrorist attack, has been sent to Terra Alta till things quieten down.

Observant, streetwise and circumspect, Melchor is an also an outsider.

The son of a Barcelona prostitute who never knew his father, Melchor rapidly fell into trouble and was jailed at 19, convicted of driving for a Colombian drug cartel. While he was behind bars, he read Hugo's Les Miserables, and then his mother was murdered. Admiring of both Jean Valjean and Javert - but mostly the relentless Javert - he decided to become a policeman.

Now he is out for revenge, but he can wait, and meanwhile he has discovered happiness with his wife, the local librarian, and their daughter, who is, of course, called Cossette.

Slowly at first, and then more rapidly once ordered to abandon the case, he tracks the clues that will reveal the larger truth behind what appears at first to be a cold-blooded, professional killing.

Biografía del autor

x{0026}lt;P x{0026}lt;B Javier Cercas x{0026}lt;/B nació en Ibahernando, Cáceres, en 1962. Su obra incluye las novelas x{0026}lt;I El móvilx{0026}lt;/I , x{0026}lt;I El inquilinox{0026}lt;/I , x{0026}lt;I El vientre de la ballenax{0026}lt;/I , x{0026}lt;I Soldados de Salaminax{0026}lt;/I , x{0026}lt;I La velocidad de la luzx{0026}lt;/I , x{0026}lt;I Anatomía de un instantex{0026}lt;/I , x{0026}lt;I Las leyes de la fronterax{0026}lt;/I , x{0026}lt;I El impostorx{0026}lt;/I , x{0026}lt;I El monarca de las sombrasx{0026}lt;/I y el tríptico de la Terra Alta, compuesto por x{0026}lt;I Terra Altax{0026}lt;/I , x{0026}lt;I Independenciax{0026}lt;/I y x{0026}lt;I El castillo de Barbazulx{0026}lt;/I . Sus libros se han traducido a más de treinta idiomas y han obtenido en todo el mundo importantes galardones, entre otros el Premio Nacional en España, el Independent Foreign Fiction Prize en Reino Unido, el Grinzane Cavour en Italia, el Prix Mediterranée en Francia, el Premio de la Crítica en Chile, el Correntes d'Escritas en Portugal, el Athens European Prize for Literature en Grecia, el Taofen en China o el Prix du Livre Européen otorgado por el Parlamento Europeo. Ha recibido, adema?s, premios muy prestigiosos de ensayo y periodismo, y diversos reconocimientos internacionales al conjunto de su carrera.x{0026}lt;/P x{0026}lt;P Es miembro de la Real Academia. x{0026}lt;I El loco de Dios en el fin del mundox{0026}lt;/I es su libro más reciente.x{0026}lt;/P