Book description
Poison, Shadow and Farewell is the concluding part in Javier
MarÃas spy trilogy masterwork, Your Face Tomorrow.
Jacques Deza is back in London and once again working for the secret
intelligence agency run by Bernard Tupra. Deza finds himself forced to
watch Tupra's collection of incriminating videotapes of important
public figures. The recordings document unconventional private lives -
and horrific acts. The scenes enter him like a poison, contaminating
everything good, yet he is powerless to counteract them.
Set against a background of brutality, Poison, Shadow and
Farewell asks whether violence can ever be justified and completes
the extraordinary journey that has led us on a descent into hell and a
re-emergence, not entirely unscathed, into life.
Javier MarÃas was born in 1951. He has published twelve novels, two
collections of stories and a number of essay collections, winning a
dazzling array of international literary awards. His work has been
translated into 37 languages in 47 countries and more than six million
copies of his books have been sold worldwide. He has held academic posts
in Spain, the United States and in Britain, as Lecturer in Spanish
Literature at Oxford University, and has recently been nominated a
member of the Real Academia de la Lengua Española. He lives in Madrid.
