El infante de la noche - Softcover

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ISBN 10: 8408000926 ISBN 13: 9788408000921

Publisher: FisicalBook, 1992

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244pp , ABOUT THE AUTHOR :: Casals, Pedro (1944 -) . Poet , novelist and Spanish researcher , born in Barcelona in 1944. Creator of one of the most popular characters of contemporary Spanish literature , the lawyer Mr. Salinas , is considered one of the greatest innovators of Spanish detective genre in the last quarter of the twentieth century. Pedro Casals , which has exerted university teaching and historical research in various higher institutions of Spain and the United States , was raised to address in an extensive cycle of stories the complex phenomenon of drug addiction and the dark web of political and economic interests that moves in their environment. To do this, he created the character of the lawyer - detective Salinas , who always helped by the police commissioner Rebollo, represents the typical figure of the anti - hero , with large doses of cynicism , just resolving their cases. Although all works featuring Salinas include, by their nature , in narrative fiction , research carried out by Pedro Casals about the world of drugs incorporated many real elements , so the bulk of its novelistic production becomes a documented testimony of denunciation of the causes leading to this social scourge , and the painful consequences of it. The Casals himself has stated that " at the time I considered writing a series on the drug phenomenon as the creator of the new Midas kings [ ... ] I am tempted , in principle, three basic ideas . First, the drug is a so exaggerated generating money, I wanted to ask me what gave these fortunes real power without limit. Secondly, I was interested in analyzing a phenomenon generating most of the processes that cause a human being to end up in jail [ ... ] . And thirdly , as a social agent is obvious that this is one of the most formidable phenomena of the era in which we live. " The novels of this unique writer have achieved such dissemination among Spanish readers, the publisher Plaza & Janes has created the " Library Author Pedro

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