Javier Cercas
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2022.
Edition
First edition/ First American edition
Physical Desc
339 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
"A first, prize-winning work of suspense from the internationally acclaimed author of Soldiers of Salamis. Melchor Marín is a young cop from the big city, Barcelona. But he is also an outsider. The son of a prostitute, Melchor went to prison as a teenager, convicted of working for a Colombian drug cartel. Behind bars, he read a book that changed his life: Les Misérables. Then his mother was murdered. He decided to become a policeman. Now he has...