Toms Nevinson

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A thrilling new literary offering from the celebrated author of Berta Isla and The Infatuations Tomas Nevinson has left the secret service and returned to his old job working in the British Embassy in Madrid. Assumed dead by his wife Berta, Tomas attempts to resume his old life and heal from his psychological wounds. But when he is contacted by his old boss, Bertram Tupra, Nevinson reluctantly becomes involved in a plan to locate and eliminate a woman believed to have helped orchestrate the 1987 Hipercor bombing. Detonated by the ETA, a Basque separatist group, the bomb killed 21 people and injured 45. Nevinson is assigned to a north-western Spanish city to find the woman. Full of mesmerising intrigue, Tomas Nevinson offers a deep reflection into the moral dilemma of whether the extrajudicial killing of a presumed criminal can be justified. Marias's meticulous insight and dazzling intellectual vigour show why he is so often said to be Spain's greatest living writer.

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One of the most acclaimed Spanish authors of his generation . . . a writer who loves the propulsiveness of the thriller, the page-turning compulsion that drives a reader through Eric Ambler or John le Carr . . . with Toms Nevinson, we are left with a great last novel by which to remember him * Financial Times *
The last novel from the late Spanish author is a mesmerising addition to his world of spies and lies . . . This is a spy thriller, but it reads like one transposed into music . . . Maras mesmerises us again and we are swept on by the long, powerful swells of his prose * Guardian *
A twisting espionage tale shot through with slantwise humour . . . seductive and inescapably poignant' * Observer *
The most subtle and gifted writer in contemporary Spanish literature * Boston Globe *
The last word from a master . . . His writing is often thrilling in a way that's distinct from any other author I know . . . once you've been inside Maras' world, to spend too long outside is unbearable * The Sunday Times *
No-one nowadays writes prose like Javier Maras . . . Maris demonstrates why so many of his peers believe him to be among the greatest of contemporary novelists. Like a secret agent, he is an observer and an eavesdropper, and an inventor . . . If you're already a fan, you'll know what to expect and rejoice. If you're not, what a treat you have in store * The Herald *
A Maras sentence is a place of infinite richness and surprises * Independent *
No one else, anywhere, is writing quite like this * Daily Telegraph *
Unquestionably the most significant Spanish writer of his generation * Observer *
[Maras] uses language like an anatomist uses a scalpel to lay bare the innermost secrets of that strangest of species, the human being -- W. G. Sebald
What makes Maras novels enthralling . . . is the irresistible, ruminative, allusive, Jamesian narrative voice * Daily Telegraph *

Author Bio

Javier Marias was born in Madrid in 1951 and died in 2022. He published fifteen novels, three collections of short stories and several volumes of essays. His work has been translated into forty-three languages and has won a dazzling array of international literary awards, including the prestigious Dublin IMPAC award for A Heart So White. He was also a highly practised translator into Spanish of English authors, including Joseph Conrad, Robert Louis Stevenson, Sir Thomas Browne and Laurence Sterne. He held academic posts in Spain, the United States and in Britain, as Lecturer in Spanish Literature at Oxford University.