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description: Spain in the 1990s is beset by a simmering campaign of terror from Basque separatists ETA with periodic atrocities shattering an illusory calm. Against this backdrop retired British Secret Service member Toms Nevinson - now living a quiet life in his hometown Madrid - is approached by his sinister former handler Bertram Tupra with an offer to bring him back in from the cold for one last assignment: a favour for Tupra for old times' sake which is also a favour for a powerful Spanish friend.His mission: to go back undercover in a small Spanish town to find out which of three women who moved there a decade ago is in fact an ETA terrorist on loan from the IRA now on the run and living there incognito.Everything about the assignment is shadowy - from who exactly Nevinson will be working for to the question of what 'justice' he may need to mete out if he is somehow able to unmask one of the three women. But still in his forties and lured by the appeal of once again being on the inside he accepts the job.As he gets closer to the three women his task becomes ever harder. How - or who - to choose between these three? Intimately involved with each of them as lover colleague or friend he can find no firm clue to resolve the question. But under increasing pressure from his paymasters choose - and act - he apparently must . . .Charting a world where right and wrong and good and evil are irreparably blurred Javier Maras takes us on a journey of rare and unforgettable suspense in this the final novel written before his untimely passing IN 2022.
language: Spanish; Castilian
title: Tomás Nevinson
publisher: Alfaguara