Breaking Lorca

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A master crime writer trains every weapon in his arsenal on a crime against humanity. In 1980s El Salvador, a young woman is detained in a government torture squad's head-quarters, suspected of supporting guerilla forces. There, a bookish new recruit, Victor Pena, is assigned to assist in her interrogation. Before they learn so much as her name-Lorca-the squad relentlessly break her, body and soul. It is a terrifying journey into human cruelty and courage, one which years later-in the pinnacle of cosmopolitan America-still haunts the tormentor as dramatically as it does his victim.

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"An utterly vivid, completely disturbing account of how thugs with authority unrestrained by the rule of law and untempered by the quality of mercy can go about the physical, mental and emotional destruction of a person."
The Gazette

"Giles Blunt writes with uncommon grace, style and compassion and he plots like a demon."
Jonathan Kellerman, The New York Times bestselling author of Capital Crimes

"A tour de force, sorrowing and direct, sharp as a knife blade, beautifully writtenan unforgettable window into the human capacity for cruelty and courage."
The Globe and Mail

Author Bio

GILES BLUNT grew up in North Bay, Ontario, and spent twenty years in New York City as a novelist and a scriptwriter for such shows as Law and Order, Street Legal and Night Heat, before making his home in Toronto. He is the author of the bestselling Cardinal crime series, featuring Algonquin Bay's John Cardinal and Lise Delorme, which has been made into a TV series for CTV. He is widely considered "one of Canada's top crime novelists" (The Globe and Mail) and among "crime drama's elite" (Publishers Weekly). He is a two-time winner of the Arthur Ellis Award for Best Novel and a recipient of the British Crime Writers' Macallan Silver Dagger.