Falcó (novel)
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| Author | Arturo Pérez-Reverte |
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| Language | Spanish |
| Publisher | Alfaguara |
Publication date | 2016 |
| Publication place | Spain |
| Pages | 296 |
| ISBN | 9788420428949 |
Falcó is a 2016 spy novel by the Spanish writer Arturo Pérez-Reverte.[1][2][3][4]
Plot
[edit]Lorenzo Falcó is 37 years old and described as an "elegant thug".[1] He has no ideology and is recruited as an intelligence operative for the Nationalist faction during the Spanish Civil War. He is sent on a mission to infiltrate the Republicans and rescue José Antonio Primo de Rivera from prison in Alicante.
Series
[edit]Falcó is the first entry in a trilogy of spy novels set during the Spanish Civil War. It was followed by Eva (2017) and Sabotaje (2018).[5]
References
[edit]- ^ a b Navarro, Justo (25 October 2016). "Un agente secreto contra todos". El País (in Spanish). Retrieved 7 January 2024.
- ^ "Pérez-Reverte: 'Tengo clarísimo que el franquismo era malo. No dedicaré una novela a explicar esa obviedad'". El Mundo (in Spanish). 19 October 2016. Retrieved 7 January 2024.
- ^ "Una visión desencantada de la Guerra Civil". El Mundo (in Spanish). 26 October 2016. Retrieved 7 January 2024.
- ^ García, Emilio Ramón (2019). "Contradicciones, falsos ideales y ruptura de de la mismidas en Falcó, de Arturo Pérez-Reverte". Anales de La Literatura Española Contemporánea. 44 (1): 89–110. JSTOR 26637165.
- ^ "Pérez-Reverte: "El querer ver al adversario exterminado o aniquilado es muy español"". El Periódico de Catalunya (in Spanish). 2 October 2018. Retrieved 7 January 2024.