Eva (Serie Falcó)

"Do not take me for one of those little bourgeois women lost among the working-class ranks. I am a Soviet agent, and your criminal fascist leaders might hold you accountable."

March 1937. As the Civil War continues its tragic course, a new mission takes Lorenzo Falcó to Tangier, a turbulent crossroads of spies, illicit trafficking, and conspiracies, with the task of convincing the captain of a ship laden with gold from the Bank of Spain to change flags. National, Republican, and Soviet spies, men and women, confront each other in a dark and dirty war in which dangerous ghosts from the past will eventually resurface.

After the international success of Falcó, reality and fiction are once again masterfully intertwined with the literary talent of Arturo Pérez-Reverte in this amazing and fascinating novel.

Reviews:
"A thrilling succession of surprising turns and situations told with a firm narrative pulse."
Ángel Basanta, El Cultural

"The Falcó-Tangier combination is irresistible [...]. Eva Neretva is one of Pérez-Reverte's great female creations."
Jacinto Antón, El País

"Falcó's second adventure surpasses the first. The first to be seduced is its creator, who writes his adventures with the enthusiasm with which his public will read them."
Justo Navarro, Babelia

"Few European writers know how to imbue their novels with a world of their own [...]. The plot, as always with Pérez-Reverte, is superbly narrated."
J. M. Pozuelo Yvancos, ABCultural

"Arturo Pérez-Reverte elevates the weekly story and the kiosk novel to a masterpiece [...]. His eyes are a video camera; his rhythm, that of the hands of a clock; his cleanliness, that of the edge of a sword."
Raúl del Pozo, El Mundo

"A dark and pulp novel, frenetic and violent, developed with love for language."
Edu Galán, La Nueva España

"It is not a book about the Civil War; it is a story of men and women told through the eyes of someone who lived 21 years of military conflicts."
Elisabetta Rosaspina, Corriere della Sera

"Falcó and Eva would have been banned in the 1940s."
Jorge Fernández Díaz, La Nación

"Pérez-Reverte has given a new and unexpected brilliance to the hitherto rather sleepy Spanish spy genre."
Sergio Vila-Sanjuán, Cultura/s de La Vanguardia

"Magnificent Eva, superior to the already brilliant Falcó."
Juan Gómez Jurado, ABC Cultural

"Eva Neretva, a brave, determined, and cruel she-wolf who hunts in hostile territory. An executioner with faith willing to die killing. The condensation in a single character of all those steel women who left their blood and their names engraved in the history of the frenetic thirties."
Victoria R. Ramos, Zenda

Critics have said about Falcó:
"Pérez-Reverte at his best. His novels draw links between each other, forming a warp that is what the classics called style, and the moderns, world."
José María Pozuelo Yvancos, ABC Cultural

"Reverte's work in Falcó, a thrilling, moral, cannibalistic novel, reminds us that he inhabits the podium of great Spanish-language narrators."
Edu Galán, La Nueva España