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Max Cámara está decaído. Unas grietas amenazantes han aparecido en lasparedes de su piso; el cuerpo de un reputado chef de paellas ha sido hallado enla playa; hay reyertas y amenazas a las clínicas proabortistas con motivo de lapróxima visita del Papa a Valencia, y el Ayuntamiento está dispuesto a demolerEl Cabanyal, el pintoresco barrio de pescadores justo en el distrito marítimo.Mientras Cámara va esclareciendo esos asuntos, se encontrará envuelto enuna red de corrupción y violencia, descubriendo profundos resentimientos ysecretos ocultos que le forzarán a replantearse sus dudas y deseos.Muerte en Valencia es la excitante segunda entrega de la serie policialprotagonizada por Max Cámara y escrita por Jason Webster, autor de O el torote mata a ti. El argumento es rápido y está lleno de giros inesperados en unmarco realista y una atmósfera totalmente auténtica. Protagonizada por eldecidido Cámara, con su pasión por el flamenco y el brandy,

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Having pursued a conventional enough path through school and university, Jason Webster was all set to enter the world of academe as a profession. But when his aloof Florentine girlfriend of some years dumped him unceremoniously, he found himself at a crossroads. Abandoning the world of libraries and the future he had always imagined for himself, he headed off instead for Spain in search of duende, the intense emotional state - part ecstasy, part desperation - so intrinsic to flamenco.Duende is an account of his years spent in Spain feeding his obsessive interest in flamenco: he subjects himself to the tyranny of his guitar teacher, practising for hours on end until his fingers bleed; he becomes involved in a passionate affair with Lola, a flamenco dancer (and older woman) married to the gun-toting Vicente, only to flee Alicante in fear of his life; in Madrid, he falls in with Gypsies and meets the imperious Jesús. Joining their dislocated, cocaine-fuelled world, stealing cars by night and sleeping away the days in tawdry rooms, he finds himself spiralling self-destructively downwards. It is only when he arrives in Granada bruised and battered, after two years total immersion in the flamenco lifestyle that he is able to put his obsession into context.In the tradition of Laurie Lee's classic As I Walked Out One Midsummer Morning, Duende charts a young man's emotional coming of age and offers real insight into the passionate essence of flamenco.

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After twelve years in Spain, Jason Webster had developed a deep love for his adopted homeland; his life there seemed complete. But when he and his Spanish wife moved into an idyllic old farmhouse in the mountains north of Valencia, by chance he found an unmarked mass grave from the Spanish Civil War on his doorstep.Spurred to investigate the history of the Civil War, a topic many of his Spanish friends still seemed to treat as taboo, he began to uncover a darker side to the country. Witness to a brutal fist-fight sponsored by remnants of Franco's Falangists, arrested and threatened by the police in the former HQ of the Spanish Foreign Legion, sheltered by a beautiful transvestite, shunned by locals, haunted by ghosts and finally robbed of his identity, Webster encountered a legacy of cruelty and violence that seems to linger on seventy years after the bloody events of that war.As in Webster's previous books, Duende and Andalus, ¡Guerra! reveals the essence of modern Spain, which few outsiders ever manage to see. Fascinating true stories from the Civil War, vividly retold as he travels around the country. Yet the more Webster unveils of the passions that set one countryman against another, the more he is led to wonder: could the dark, primitive currents that ripped the country apartin the 1930s still be stirring under the sophisticated, worldly surface of today's Spain?

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Spain has never worked as a democracy. Throughout the country's history only one system of government has ever enjoyed any real success: dictatorship and the use of violence.Violence, in fact, is what Spain is made of, lying at the heart of its culture and identity, far more so than any other western European nation. For well over a thousand years, the country has only ever been forged and then been held together through the use of aggression - brutal, merciless terror and warfare directed against its own people. Without it the country breaks apart and Spain ceases to exist - a fact that recent events in Barcelona confirm. Authoritarianism is the Spanish default setting.Yet Spain has produced many of the most important artists and thinkers in the Western world, from Cervantes, author of the first modern novel, to Goya, the first modern painter. Much of Western artistic expression, in fact, from the Picaresque to Cubism, would be unthinkable without the Spanish contribution. This unique national genius, however, does not exist despite Spain's violent backdrop; it is, in fact, born out of it. Indeed Spain's genius and violent nature go hand in hand, locked together in a macabre, elaborate dance. This is the country's tragedy.La Violencia unveils this truth for the first time, exposing the bloody heart of Spain - from its origins in the ancient past to the Civil War and the current crisis in Catalonia. La Violencia will be in the tradition of those books which come to define our understanding of a country.

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Max Cámara ?anarquista reticente e inspector jefe de la Policía Nacional de Valencia?odia los toros, pero una tarde en Fallas tiene que presidir una corrida cuyaestrella es el gran matador del momento, Jorge Blanco. Poco después, el cadáver mutiladode Blanco es hallado en la Plaza de Toros y Cámara se ve obligado a investigarel homicidio de un hombre que consideraba casi como a un asesino. Pero a medidaque el nuevo caso avanza, se revelan secretos y pasiones escondidas no sólo dentrode Cámara, sino también en el seno de la clase política de una ciudad plagada decorrupción. Con una vida amorosa en caída libre, y anhelando cada vez más la marihuanasuministrada por su abuelo, Cámara descubre que la fiesta taurina refleja algode los demonios que él mismo lleva dentro, precipitando un desenlace explosivo enla misma Nit de la Cremà.Novela nominada al Crime Writers? Association New Blood Dagger Award

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