Madrid.- The Spanish writer Arturo Pérez-Reverte returns to bookstores with “Falcó”, a novel starring a spy without scruples in the turbulent Europe of the 30′s and 40′s.
Thirty years after his first novel, “The hussar”, the new work of the author of “captain Alatriste” is a history of violence, patterns of power and suspense that is published simultaneously in Spain, Latin america and the united States.
“Falcó” is framed in the autumn of 1936, has just begun with the Spanish Civil War and with Europe about to re-bleed. In this context, the elegant and womanizer Lorenzo Falcó received as an order for a tricky mission: liberate the leader falangist José Antonio Primo de Rivera, who had prisoner to the republican side.
“For Falcó, words such as homeland, love or future had no meaning. He was a man of the moment, trained to be one. A wolf in the shade. Avid and dangerous,” writes Pérez-Reverte. Accompanying the spy a man and two women who, in these times of betrayal, they could become their victims.
As is the case in “El tango de la Guardia Vieja”, Pérez-Reverte recreates in “Falcó” a stage that moves between the luxury of some and hunger of others, and in which fascists, nazis, bolsheviks, spies and contraespías dictated the intricacies of european policy.
Journalist and academic of the language, Pérez-Reverte is the author of such acclaimed novels as “comanche Territory”, “The table of Flanders”, “the Queen of The South” or “The club Dumas”, many of which have been taken to the cinema. Last year, he also published the volume “The Civil War told young people”.
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