The Prisoner of Heaven
Publisher: HarperCollins
Published: 2012
Place of publication: USA
Format: eBook (Kindle)
Number of pages: 288
Table of contents: title: The Prisoner of Heaven returns to the world of the Cemetery of Forgotten Books and the Sempere & Sons bookshop, where Daniel and his old friend Ferm?n Romero de Torres are tending shop. Daniel is now married with a son, and Ferm?n is soon to follow. Both men lead relatively happy and quiet lives. Enter an enigmatic visitor— a grim old man with a piercing gaze— who inquires about Ferm?n’ s whereabouts. When told he is not in, the old man proceeds to buy the most expensive item in the store, a first edition of The Count of Monte Cristo; he adds a dedication and leaves it as a gift for Ferm?n. When Daniel reveals the details of this unsettling encounter to his friend, Ferm?n reads the dedication, turns pale, and at Daniel’ s insistence, decides to open up about a past that has come back to haunt him . . . a story that will leave Daniel questioning his very existence.