El amante de la psicoanalista

"Since they shot her at point-blank range while she was being kissed, she confused the pain of love with that of death." Rosario Tijeras is the violent, violated character at the center of Jorge Franco's study of contrasts, set in self-destructing 1980s Medellín. Her very name-evoking the rosary, and scissors-bespeaks her conflict as a woman who becomes a contract killer to insulate herself from the random violence of the streets. Then she is shot, gravely wounded, and the circle of contradiction is closed. From the corridors of the hospital where Rosario is fighting for her life, Antonio,...

Juan Granados (A Coruña, 1961), formado como historiador en Santiago de Compostela y Florencia, irrumpió con fuerza en la escena de la novela histórica española con Sartine y el caballero del punto fijo (2003), que iniciaba un ciclo del que la segunda entrega es Sartine y la guerra de los guaraníes (2010).

Una novela histórica repleta de misterio e intriga, ambientada en el cierre de la frontera y bloqueo de Gibraltar de 1969. Comienza el año 1969. En la sede de la ONU, se acaba de establecer la fecha límite para que el Reino Unido abandone Gibraltar. En previsión de un eventual incumplimiento de la Resolución 2.429, Franco dicta a Carrero Blanco, su vicepresidente, la orden más delicada de las últimas tres décadas: preparar la invasión armada de la colonia británica. Para ello, el almirante encarga la coordinación del operativo al ambicioso general José Caballero. Una de las...

A Siege of Terra novella from New York Times best selling author Graham McNeill. The Shattered Legion crew of the Sisypheum, broken and at the end of their endurance, find themselves divided; torn between following their resurrected captain on a suicidal mission or obeying orders to return to Terra and rejoin their Legion brothers. Following a series of garbled messages intercepted by the Kryptos, the divided warriors descend to the shattered surface of Luna. Here, their bonds of loyalty, duty, as well as their devotion to one another will be tested as ancient horrors of the earliest days of...