Spanish writer Arturo Pérez-Reverte returns to bookstores today with Falcó, a novel about an unscrupulous spy in Europe in the 30s and 40s.

“Falcó, Pérez-Reverte’s spy novel hits bookshops Set in Europe in the thirties.  

Thirty years after his first novel, El húsar (The Hussar), the new work by the author of El capitán Alatriste (Captain Alatriste) is a story of violence, intrigue and suspense that will be published simultaneously in Spain, Latin America and the United States.

Falcó begins in the autumn of 1936, when the Spanish Civil War has just broken out and Europe is heading towards conflagration. The dapper womanizer Lorenzo Falcó is given a difficult mission: to free the falangist leader José Antonio Primo de Rivera, who has been captured by the Republicans. (…) The action shifts from luxurious environs to poverty stricken slums as fascists, Nazis, Bolsheviks, spies and double agents wage clandestine battles for control of Europe.”

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