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Violence, power, suspense, loyalty, and passion. The complete trilogy of Arturo Pérez-Reverte's most fascinating character since Captain Alatriste.Falcó «Falcó’s world was different, and there the sides were perfectly defined: on one hand himself, and on the other everyone els...
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Trilogía de Falcó (pack con Falcó | Eva | Sabotaje)
Violence, power, suspense, loyalty, and passion. The complete trilogy of Arturo Pérez-Reverte's most fascinating character since Captain Alatriste. Falcó «Falcó’s world was different, and there the sides were perfectly defined: on one hand himself, and on the other everyone else.» The turbulent Europe of the 1930s and 1940s is the setting for the adventures of Lorenzo Falcó, former arms smuggler, unscrupulous spy, intelligence agent. In the autumn of 1936, as the border between friends and enemies shrinks to a vague and dangerous line, Falcó is tasked with infiltrating a difficult mission that could change the course of Spanish history. A man and two women—the Montero siblings and Eva Rengel—will be his companions in adventure and perhaps his victims, in a time when life is written by betrayals and nothing is as it seems. Eva «Don't take me for one of those bourgeois women lost among the working class. I'm a Soviet agent, and your criminal fascist bosses might hold you accountable.» 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 getting 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 return. Sabotage «The waning light from the window and its optical effect on the glass gave a faint reddish patina to the enormous canvas; as if it, before becoming reality, was already slowly bleeding. And suddenly, everything made sense. -It will be called Guernica -said Picasso.» May 1937. Far from the battlefields of the Civil War, combat also takes place in the shadows. A double mission takes Lorenzo Falcó to Paris with the aim of preventing, by any means possible, the Guernica being painted by Pablo Picasso from ever reaching the Universal Exhibition where the Republic intends to gain international support. Although the winds of the new war that will devastate the continent are already evident in Europe, cheerful music continues to play, and art, business, and frivolous life still occupy intellectuals, refugees, and activists. Accustomed to danger and extreme situations, Falcó must this time confront a world where the struggle of ideas seeks to impose itself over action. A world alien to him, to which he will apply his own methods. Reviews: «Pérez-Reverte, at his best. The reader feels as if they are there.» «A sharp thriller, with cutting dialogues. His most thrilling and ruthless work.» «Falcó is destined to fascinate millions of readers worldwide.» «Arturo Pérez-Reverte knows how to captivate the reader with every turn of the page.» «Arturo Pérez-Reverte takes the reader's breath away.» «There is a Spanish writer who resembles the best Spielberg plus Umberto Eco. His name is Arturo-Pérez-Reverte.» «A thrilling succession of surprising turns and situations told with a firm narrative pulse.» «Arturo Pérez-Reverte elevates the weekly story and the pulp novel to a masterpiece.» «A dark and pulp novel, frantic and violent, developed with a love for language.» «Falcó and Eva would have been banned in the 1940s.» |
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