Spain is corrupt and on the brink of collapse.The king is ill, banks are closing, hospitals are in chaos, homes are lost, demonstrators riot and rightwing thugs patrol the street. The tunnels beneath the streets are at once a refuge and a source of anger. And as the blood flows Cámara roars in on his motorbike...
Cámara is back in Valencia and in the old police headquarters the mood is tense as the chief hunts for cuts who will go, Cámara or his friend Torres? The two men are flung into action investigating the suicide of an ex- bank clerk and the brutal murder of a young American woman. As the city erupts around them, their case takes them into the heart of the trouble.
Brought up in England, Jason Webster lived for many years in Spain. His acclaimed non-fiction books about Spain includeDuende: A Journey in Search of Flamenco;Andalus:Unlocking the Secrets of Moorish Spain;Guerra: Living in the Shadows of the Spanish Civil War; Sacred Sierra: A Year on a Spanish Mountainand the forthcomingThe Spy with 29 Names.He is also the author of the Max Cámara series of crime novels, the first of which,Or the Bull Kills You, was longlisted for the CWA Specsavers Crime Thriller Awards New Blood Dagger 2011. This was followed byA Death in ValenciaandThe Anarchist Detective.
