The Ignorance of Blood

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A new psychological thriller in the Javier Falcon quartet, that includes THE HIDDEN ASSASSINS and The Blind Man of Seville.
The sweltering city of Seville is still recovering from a shocking and unsolved terrorist attack but now a spectacular car crash brings to light another threat. A dead gangster and a suitcase filled with millions in cash means the prospect of a serious Russian mafia presence on Inspector Jefe Javier Falcn's beat.

As a turf war erupts, Falcn finds himself and those closest to him personally targeted by the lethal forces suddenly unleashed. In the face of such a brutal attack, Falcn decides to retaliate with a ruthlessness that surprises him as much as his adversaries - but it will come at a tragic price.

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Praise for The Ignorance of Blood:

Wilson writes so well brave, humane, intuitive Literary Review

A well-engineered plot and dense, chewy prose skilfully woven together Guardian

This is a big, serious thriller with echoes of Le CarreWilson writes with an impressive sense of inside knowledge, both about contemporary Seville and about its criminal underbelly Andrew Taylor, The Spectator

The complex narrative contains several set-pieces of breathless brutality and twists and turns like a bull tormented by picadors. This is crime-writing for grown-ups Sunday Telegraph

The last in the fine quartet a fitting end to an absorbing, well-written series The Times

A writer of sharp psychological insights. This is the final book in Wilsons much-acclaimed Javier Falcon quartet but such is the skill with which he has drawn us into Javier Falcons world that he is leaving us hungry for more forays into Sevilles dangerous underworld Daily Express

[Wilson] has given the twists and turns of a thriller a pleasingly idiosyncratic national context, as the crooks on the Costa del Sol invade Seville TLS

A hard-edged finale to a crime series that succeeds in being shocking and sensitive, intriguing and electrifying, all at the same time Northern Echo

His writing is always trenchant and pity, his characters heroic and damaged, his descriptions of Spain resonant and prescient. A great contemporary thriller Catholic Herald

Author Bio

Robert Wilson was born in 1957. A graduate of Oxford University, he has worked in shipping, advertising and trading in Africa. He has travelled in Asia and Africa and has lived in Greece and West Africa. He is married and writes from an isolated farmhouse in Portugal.