A marriage built on lies, a man with many faces, an unpaid debt to the secret service - rich drama from the author of The Infatuations.
Javier Marias is the author of sixteen works in Spanish, which have been translated into forty-five languages including English. His translated English works are All Souls, A Heart So White, Tomorrow in the Battle Think on Me, When I Was Mortal, Dark Back of Time, The Man of Feeling, Voyage Along the Horizon, Written Lives, the Your Face Tomorrow trilogy (Fever and Spear, Dance and Dream and Poison, Shadow and Farewell), Bad Nature, While the Women Are Sleeping, The Infatuations, Thus Bad Begins and, Venice, An Interior. Javier Marias has received numerous literary prizes including the International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award and the Prix Formentor. He lives and works as a translator and columnist in Madrid.
Marías weaves a thrilling and desolate meditation on the psychic
costs of the deep state's dark arts.
*1843 Magazine*
Magical...finest novel to date
*Alex Clark*
Compelling
*Tatler*
A twisty, thought-provoking tale that puts notions of truth and
morality under pitiless scrutiny
*The Guardian*
elegant, discursive, persuasively vivid novel...powerful and
indelible
*The National*
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