The final novel from Spain's most acclaimed writer, a novel about a
charismatic half-Spanish, half-English man who is recruited by British
intelligence
"Javier Marías's best work." --El País
Retired spy Tomás Nevinson--once an agent for the British Secret
Service, now living a quiet life in his hometown, Madrid--is approached
by his former handler, Bertram Tupra, with an offer to bring him back in
from the cold for one last assignment.
The mission: to go undercover again, in a small Spanish town, to find
out which of three women who moved there a decade ago is in fact a
terrorist trained by the IRA, on the run after masterminding several
deadly attacks.
Everything about the assignment is shadowy, from exactly who is in
charge, to the question of what "justice" Nevinson will need to mete out
once he unmasks the terrorist. But, lured by the appeal of being back on
the inside, he accepts the job.
Nevinson soon becomes intimately involved with each of the three women.
How--or whom--to choose among them? Under increasing pressure, he must
choose, and then act . . .
Charting a world in which right and wrong, good and evil, are
irreparably blurred, Javier Marías takes us on a journey of rare and
unforgettable suspense in this, the final novel written before his
untimely passing.
