Unquestionably the most significant Spanish writer of his generation ... Your Face Tomorrow is rich haunting intriguing ObserverThis trilogy must be one of the greatest novels of our age Antony BeevorFear is the greatest force that exists as long as you can adapt to itJacques Deza has been recruited into an undercover spy network by the inscrutable Bertram Tupra. But when he is forced to witness an act of horrifying brutality in a night club he finds himself falling apart haunted by his own memories of the bloodshed of the Spanish Civil War. As Deza tries to disentangle himself from an increasingly disturbing world the second volume in Javier Marias magnificent trilogy explores violence corruption and what we are capable of