Böcker av Javier Fuentes

Isaac Suchet y el secreto del rey, es una novela negra de época. Con un estilo fresco y fácil de leer. Con toques históricos, entretenida y amena. En la que se entremezclan asesinatos, conspiraciones, robos y traiciones. Una novela negra llena de misterio, aventura, amor y amistad. Nuestro protagonista es un comisario de policía retirado recordando sus tiempos pasados. En este lance nos trasladaremos a los años en los que Suchet era un joven inspector. Centrándonos en el caso del asesinato de varios policías, además del incomprensible robo de unos valiosísimos libros, en los que se esconde un secreto que podría derrocar una monarquía. En el transcurso de esta historia, Isaac, conocerá a personajes reales de la vida nacional y madrileña de la época, junto con un elenco de actores ficticios que harán al lector imbuirse en un ambiente verdaderamente apasionante de misterio y acción. Escrita con cierto estilo clásico y a la vez tan diferente a cualquier otra aventura de detectives de la extensa literatura negra.

"In this stunning debut, Javier Fuentes chronicles a tumultuous, passionate love affair between two young men from vastly different worlds during one, extraordinary summer in Spain, in what is ultimately a meditation on identity, class, belonging and desire. It is 2007, in New York where Demetrio, 30, is a celebrated pastry chef at the French restaurant, Le Bourrelet. It will be his seventh year as their pãatissier and the chef-owner, stern, but paternal feels he should move on. When Demetrio is offered a position as Head of Pastries at a Michelin-starred restaurant, he wants nothing more than to accept it. Undocumented, he is missing one crucial thing: papers. Terrified he will be found out, he makes the difficult decision of voluntary departure to permanently return to his homeland which he has not seen since he was a small child. This will mean leaving the only family he knows, his beloved uncle Chus, who brought him up and who he still lives with. On his flight to Madrid, he sits next to the handsome, playful and sensitive Jacobo, a student at NYU going home to his aristocratic, fascist family and there is an instant, unacknowledged electricity between them. In dimly lit bars in Madrid and on pebbled beaches by the sea far outside the city, Demetrio and Jacobo's subtle but intense relationship unfolds. Demetrio is tortured by a fear of true intimacy, and anxiety about their class difference. Both are struggling with their identities and sexuality and they avoid their true feelings and deep passion until a family tragedy sets them on a collision course back into one another's lives. Powerfully sensual, and dramatic, Countries of Origin is a story which immerses you in the intense emotions and conflicts of love and loss"--