La Obsesion

In the turbulent twelfth century, Leola, a young peasant girl, takes a dead warrior’s armor to hide behind the mask of a man. This is the beginning of the dramatic voyage into the story of her life. It is an extraordinary journey into the unknown side of the Middle Ages. It is a fable that will move us by its sheer epic greatness, one of those books that is not read but lived, breathed, and tasted. Montero’s novel is bursting with the power of a literary work on its way to becoming a classic.

Lluvia vive por y para su hija Iris. Por ella sería capaz de todo, hasta de dibujar en su cara una sonrisa que maquille el cansancio y los problemas con los que tropieza cada día. Su vida se pintaba con otros colores diferentes al blanco y negro… Era joven… Es joven… pero con responsabilidades impropias para su edad, como convivir con el vago de su novio, padre de su hija, o intentar sacar dinero de debajo de las piedras para pagar las factura a primeros de mes, por no olvidar que debe robar horas al sueño para aprobar sus estudios. Ya se había adaptado a sus problemas… No...

From the author of Thirteen Hours - A Sunday Times '100 best crime novels and thrillers since 1945' pick *** Why would a mathematics professor from Cambridge University, renting a holiday home outside Cape Town, require a false identity and three bodyguards? And where is he, now that they are dead? The only clue to the bodyguards' murder is the snake engraved on the shell casings of the bullets that killed them. Investigating the massacre, Benny Griessel and his team find themselves being drawn into an international conspiracy with shocking implications. It seems it is not just the terrorists ...

"Sara conocerá a tres hombres en su vida, pero el gran amor tendrá un único nombre: Lucius, el legionario romano."--Couv.