El Tesoro Fatal

A 38-year-old man appears hanging from a tree, but the forensic surgeon reveals that he was hanged after having been killed: an incision in the parietal bone with a twenty-centimeter nail. Enrique Lahoz, a steppe wolf nicknamed by his colleagues "the ghost", who has been a policeman for twenty years, fifteen of which not wearing the uniform and ten not appearing at the Madrid Police Station to which he is assigned, works alone and in the strangest cases. A main character who is a victim of his own way of life, to which he has been led by his daily reality as a judicial investigator. Lahoz has ...

Alma, a 17-year-old girl, is admitted to a psychiatric clinic in an old building. She lives with other patients and crosses with children whom only she can see. Little by little, the history of the building and its former occupants becomes entangled with Alma's reality and leads her to unravel dark secrets.

Este libro anhela referir lo vivido, pero también lo leído y lo soñado; esto es, combina testimonios y elucubraciones, moviéndose libremente entre la ficción y la no ficción, y, al amparo de dicha libertad, su escritura recurre a diversos géneros literarios: crónica, cuento, semblanza, ensayo, teatro. Con Seis capítulos perdidos y otros extravíos, no cabe duda, se afianza un autor curioso y evocativo en sus últimos años. Para él, más que nunca, leer es igual a soñar, y vivir, igual a jugar. Fernando Ampuero juega con su memoria, con su fantasía, con sus nostalgias, con su...

When a rough street kid meets a special girl, he discovers there is no gun or gang tough enough to protect him against the life-changing power of love.