A Scoundrel's Story

A bold change of pace in which Julia Navarro dissects human ambition, greed, and selfishness.

I am a scoundrel and I don't regret being one.

I have lied, deceived, and manipulated at will without caring about the consequences.

I have destroyed dreams and reputations, I have betrayed those who were loyal to me, I have caused pain to those who wanted to help me.

I have played with the hopes of those who thought they could change who I am.

I know what I did and I always knew what I should have done.

This is the story of a scoundrel. Mine.

Thomas Spencer knows how to get everything he wants. A delicate health is the price he has had to pay for his lifestyle, but he doesn't regret it. However, since his last cardiac episode, a strange sensation has taken hold of him and in the solitude of his luxurious Brooklyn apartment, nights go by where he can't help but wonder what the life he consciously chose not to live would have been like.

The memory of the moments that led him to succeed as a publicist and image consultant, between London and New York in the eighties and nineties, reveals the murky mechanisms that power centers sometimes use to achieve their goals. A hostile world, governed by men, where women refuse to play a secondary role.

Critics have said...
«Historia de un canalla is a novel full of courage. Julia Navarro's best. A novel in which psychological complexity allies with the best of the thriller.»
Juan Ángel Juristo, ABC Cultural