Tom�s Nevinson has left the secret service and returned to his old job working in the British Embassy in Madrid. Assumed dead by his wife Berta, Tom�s attempts to resume his previous life and heal from his psychological wounds. But when he is contacted by his old boss, Bertram Tupra, Nevinson reluctantly becomes involved in a plan to locate and eliminate a woman believed to have helped orchestrate the 1987 Hipercor bombing. Detonated by the ETA, a Basque separatist group, the bomb killed 21 people and injured 45. Full of mesmerising intrigue, this novel offers a deep reflection into the moral dilemma of whether the killing of a presumed criminal can be justified.
Tom�S Nevinson
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Javier Mar�as Penguin Books FHD|FYT|FF Paperback 2024
A meditation on thought and consciousness, identity and disguise, the gloriously rolling sentences offer the deep pleasures of a brilliant mind apprehending the world in real time
Guardian, ‘2023 Summer Reads’
This is a spy thriller, but it reads like one transposed into music . . . Mar�as mesmerises us again and we are swept on by the long, powerful swells of his prose
Guardian
The last word from a master . . . His writing is often thrilling in a way that's distinct from any other author I know . . . once you've been inside Mar�as' world, to spend too long outside is unbearable
The Sunday Times
How we will miss the late Javier Mar�as and his unique genre of slow-motion page-turners, blending thrillery plots with long, equivocating sentences . . . [Tom�s Nevinson] is full of the complexities, comedy and most of all contradictions that define his work
Guardian, ‘Best Translated Novels of 2023’
A writer who loves the propulsiveness of the thriller, the page-turning compulsion that drives a reader through Eric Ambler or John le Carr�
Financial Times
Mari�s demonstrates why so many of his peers believe him to be among the greatest of contemporary novelists
The Herald
The most subtle and gifted writer in contemporary Spanish literature
Boston Globe
A Mar�as sentence is a place of infinite richness and surprises
Independent
A Spanish literary great . . . His writing is fine and subtle
Le Monde
Javier Mar�as's writing doesn't resemble anyone else's. It's easy to parody, but impossible to imitate . . . Javier Marias was the best writer in Spain
Eduardo Mendoza
Mar�as occupied a reputational perch in Spanish culture that would be almost inconceivable for an American author . . . Most considered him the greatest living Spanish writer
New York Times
Javier Marias’s farewell novel sees the late Spanish spellbinder leave us in a droll, delicious, thrillerish labyrinth
The Spectator ‘Best Books of 2023’
