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juan gómez-jurado , february 2007 madrid , spain stephen follett king , alexandre dumas , père , ken 16 december 1977 drama , thriller juangomez-jurado . jpg juan gómez-jurado
 juan gómez-jurado novelist , short story writer , screenwriter , columnist
juan gómez-jurado

juan gómez-jurado -lrb- born 16 december 1977 in madrid , spain -rrb- is an award-winning spanish journalist and bestselling author .
currently , he is a columnist in `` la voz de galicia , '' and `` abc '' , distributed in spain , and he participates in several radio and tv programs .
translated into 42 languages , gómez-jurado is one of the most successful contemporary spanish authors of all time along with new york times bestselling authors javier sierra and carlos ruiz zafón .
his writing has been widely described by critics as `` energetic and cinematographic '' .
gómez-jurado worked in many the most important spanish media , like 40 principales , cadena ser , cadena cope , radio españa , canal + and abc , before hitting the bestseller lists throughout the world with god 's spy -lrb- espía de dios -rrb- , his first novel .
an instant bestseller in spain , with rights sold in 42 countries to date and more than a million copies sold , `` god 's spy '' is a contemporary thriller set in the vatican , where , in the aftermath of pope john paul ii 's death , the hunt for a serial killer reveals a chilling conspiracy .
on 27 september 2008 , gómez-jurado won the prestigious premio de novela ciudad de torrevieja for his latest novel `` the traitor 's emblem '' .
the plot is set in germany after the first world war , a thriller that begins one night in 1941 aboard a patrol spanish ship at the gibraltar strait , where captain gonzález ends rescuing the only survivors from a shipwreck whom he manages to take to the coast of portugal .
the shipwrecked germans , as a token of their gratitude , present captain gonzález with a gold emblem , and two words the german leader of the rescued lot will remember for all his life and throughout the novel : `` treason '' and `` salvation '' .
this novel is being translated into 40 languages and will be published in july 2011 in the usa .
kirkus reviews praised `` the traitor 's emblem '' : `` riveting thriller with a redeeming love story '' .
