La Condena de Los Vivos / The Condemnation of the Living - Paperback

by Marco de Franchi (Author)

El thriller italiano ya tiene su James Ellroy: Marco De Franchi. La condena de los vivos es un thriller muy negro, tanto que el mal no solo se lee, se respira.

Un ni?o corre desnudo y muerto de miedo por el campo toscano. Se llama Fosco y ha logrado escapar de su secuestrador. Pocos d?as m?s tarde desaparece otro ni?o, Andrea. Solo tiene doce a?os y el hombre que se lo ha llevado de su casa ha matado a cuchilladas al padre. El SCO (Servicio Central Operativo, el equivalente al FBI italiano) pone al frente del caso a su comisaria m?s joven, Valentina Medici, que se traslada de inmediato a la zona. Los dos ni?os no se conocen y no tienen nada en com?n, salvo un detalle extraordinario: se parecen mucho, tanto que podr?an ser gemelos. Los investigadores tan solo cuentan con una pista sobre el captor: se trata de un hombre musculoso con el pelo blanco y una sonrisa g?lida. El asesino va sumando desapariciones y cad?veres entre sus v?ctimas, y no solo ni?os con lo que la pista de la pedofilia se abandona.

Valentina no cuenta con muchos apoyos entre los miembros de su equipo, pronto descubre que solo puede confiar en Fabio Costa, un experimentado polic?a de pasado oscuro relegado a una insignificante comisar?a de provincia. A medida que pasa el tiempo los enigmas se hacen m?s indescifrables, Valentina se da cuenta de que el art?fice de los delitos responde a una obsesi?n morbosa, una mente criminal perturbada que juega a transformar sus locuras visionarias en realidad.

ENGLISH DESCRIPTION

Italian thrillers now have their own James Ellroy: Marco De Franchi. The Condemnation of the Living es is a thriller so noir that the evil in it is palpable.

A terrified boy runs naked through the Tuscan countryside. His name is Fosco and he managed to escape his kidnapper. A few days later, another boy disappears. Andrea is only twelve and his father was stabbed to death by the man who abducted him from his home. The SCO (Central Operational Service, the Italian equivalent of the FBI) puts its youngest agent, Valentina Medici in charge of the case, and she immediately sets out to investigate. The two boys don't know each other and have nothing in common, except for one extraordinary detail: They look a lot alike, so much so that they could be twins. The only clue the investigators have to work on is that the man who took them is heavily muscled, with white hair and an icy smile. The disappearances continue and the body count rises, not all of them children, ruling out the initial theory of pedophilia.

Finding little support among the members of her team, Valentina learns that the only person she can trust is Fabio Costa, a veteran policeman whose dark past has relegated him to an insignificant provincial posting. As time passes and the enigmas become even more indecipherable, Valentina traces the root of the crimes to the morbid obsessions of a disturbed mind bent on transforming its delusions into reality.