Book description
NOW A MAJOR TV DRAMA ON SKY ATLANTIC. The first crime novel in Robert
Wilson's Seville series, featuring the tortured detective Javier Falcon.
The man is bound, gagged and dead in front of his television. The
terrible self-inflicted wounds tell of his violent struggle to avoid
some unseen horror. On the screen? In his head? What could make a man do
that to himself?
It's Easter week in Seville, a time of passion and processions. But
detective Javier Falcón is not celebrating. Appalled by the victim's
staring eyes he is inexorably drawn into this disturbing, mystifying
case. And when the investigation into the dead man's life sends Javier
trawling though his own past and into the shocking journals of his late
father, a famous artist, his unreliable memory begins to churn. Then
there are more killings and Falcón finds himself pushed to the edge of a
terrifying truth… Praise for The Blind Man of Seville
'Crime writing at its very best, but it is also something more. It
observes no limits, it begs no one's pardon. It excites, it surprises
and it satisfies. This is a fine important novel' Literary Review
'Admirably paced and enthrallingly elaborate' Sunday Times
'The Blind Man of Seville is an ingenious and compelling thriller'
Daily Telegraph
'This is powerful evocative stuff' Observer
'As an evocation of the emotional labyrinth of postwar Tangiers and as
a tale of artistic drift, it's rather brilliant - a detective story Paul
Bowles never wrote' Guardian
A wonderful, if dark and disturbing, literary detective novel' Time Out
'To call Robert Wilson's 'The Blind Man of Seville' a thriller is to do
a grave injustice to an utterly stunning achievement. The central
narrative of the detective on the verge of a nervous breakdown is a
psychological thriller of real profundity. Wonderful!' Paul Preston,
author of 'Franco' Robert Wilson was born in 1957. A graduate of
Oxford University, he has worked in shipping and advertising in London
and trading in West Africa. He is married and divides his time between
England, Spain and Portugal.
