Jason Webster je uznávaný autor, jehož díla se pohybují od biografií a cestopisů po historické romány a detektivky. Jeho knihy, které vyšly ve více než tuctu zemí, se často srovnávají s renomovanými autory a vyznačují se hlubokým zájmem o Španělsko. Webster se zaměřuje na propojení historie, kultury a současnosti, přičemž jeho styl je ceněn pro svou poutavost a pronikavost. Jeho práce nabízí čtenářům jedinečný pohled na složitost španělské společnosti a jejího bohatého dědictví.
Max Cámara returns to navigate a world filled with intrigue and danger. Set against a backdrop of vibrant culture, he faces complex challenges that test his resolve and skills. As he delves deeper into his latest case, unexpected alliances and fierce adversaries emerge, revealing hidden motives and dark secrets. This gripping narrative combines suspense with rich character development, making it a captivating read for fans of crime and mystery genres.
Spain is corrupt and on the brink of collapse.The king is ill, banks are closing, hospitals are in chaos, homes are lost, demonstrators riot and rightwing thugs patrol the street. The tunnels beneath the streets are at once a refuge and a source of anger. And as the blood flows, C�mara roars in on his motorbike. He's is back in Valencia and in the old police headquarters the mood is tense as the chief hunts for cuts--who will go, C�mara or his friend Torres? The two men are flung into action investigating the suicide of an ex- bank clerk and the brutal murder of a young American woman. As the city erupts around them, their case takes them into the heart of the trouble.
Detective Max Camara is under pressure. When one of Camara's long term
adversaries is put in charge of the missing abortionist case, tensions are
quickly running high, and with ominous cracks spreading across the walls of
his flat, Camara soon has nowhere to turn.
Sent on leave after his last, brutal, case, Max Camara returns to his home
town in La Mancha, famous for producing the finest saffron in the world. His
old friend Yago is investigating a particularly nasty murder which sets off
memories Max has been trying to bury for years.
Tensions in Spain are rising: political violence and social unrest have re-emerged. In Catalonia, the call for independence is getting louder. The last time Barcelona moved to break away, in the 1930s, Spain descended into civil war. A shallow grave is found among abandoned orange groves outside Valencia. Chief Inspector Max C�mara, heading up the new Special Crime Unit, is on the case--but he uncovers a tangled web that could decimate Barcelona and destabilize the whole country. The stakes are higher than anything he's ever known.
Having pursued a conventional enough path through school and university, Jason Webster was all set to enter the world of academe as a profession. But when his aloof Florentine girlfriend of some years dumped him unceremoniously, he found himself at a crossroads. Abandoning the world of libraries and the future he had always imagined for himself, he headed off instead for Spain in search of duende, the intense emotional state - part ecstasy, part desperation - so intrinsic to flamenco. Duende is an account of his years spent in Spain feeding his obsessive interest in flamenco: he subjects himself to the tyranny of his guitar teacher, practicing for hours on end until his fingers bleed; he becomes involved in a passionate affair with Lola, a flamenco dancer (and older woman) married to the gun-toting Vicente, only to flee Alicante in fear of his life; in Madrid, he falls in with Gypsies and meets the imperious Jes�s. Joining their dislocated, cocaine-fuelled world, stealing cars by night and sleeping away the days in tawdry rooms, he finds himself spiralling self-destructively downwards. It is only when he arrives in Granada bruised and battered, after two years total immersion in the flamenco lifestyle that he is able to put his obsession into context. In the tradition of Laurie Lee's classic As I Walked Out One Midsummer Morning, Duende charts a young man's emotional coming of age and offers real insight into the passionate essence of flamenco.
Spain's Moorish past is evident everywhere you look - in the food, the language, the architecture. For centuries, Christians, Muslims and Jews lived in Spain side by side in peace, and it was home to some of the greatest minds in the world. After the Moors' expulsion in the seventeenth century, much of their knowledge, skill and artistry was lost. Jason Webster originally travelled to Spain to play the flamenco guitar. A qualified Arabist, he now embarks on a quest for Spain's forgotten Arab legacy, and gets embroiled with characters who are as wild and original as those he described so vividly in Duende. What lessons can we learn today from the harmony that existed for so long in medieval Spain - and from the subsequent expulsion of its Muslims and Jews?
Either you kill the bull, or the bull kills you - traditional proverb. Chief Inspector Max Cámara hates bullfighting but one hot afternoon in Valencia he has to replace his boss, judging a festival corrida that stars Spain's most famous young matador. That night, he is summoned back to the bullring where the young matador's dead body now lies, naked and mutilated. As the city prepares for Fallas, the five day festival of fireworks and celebrations, and the politicians work feverishly towards an election, Cámara hunts down his prey through the city's streets and bars. But as he follows the trail of death, money, corruption and sex in search of the killer, he must also battle his own demons and desires...
