Soy la daga y soy la herida

Abyss is a cruel god, whose whims determine life and death, and Mercy Dagger, a methodical and inflexible executioner, works unconditionally under his orders. But his obedience is tested when he falls in love with the granddaughter of his next victim. This novel is an extraordinary parody of our fierce times, marked by the delirium of authoritarian, irrational, and criminal rulers. A universal tragicomedy, it dramatizes cyclical eras of terror that herald ultimate chaos, or perhaps foreshadow a new world. The protagonist, a headhunter with deliciously human traits, recounts his own vicissitudes, using a brisk graphic novel style and inaugurating a radical literary genre, brutal noir, somewhere between the historical and the mythological, the real and the hallucinatory. An unforgettable character, Misericordia Dagger is embroiled in a struggle with a teenage apprentice, the unpredictable and hyper-violent Prince Blood, to whom she wishes to bequeath her knowledge of the craft and her beloved dagger, "sharp as hunger and unsuspecting as a woman." Furthermore, she bears the mythical image of the enigmatic Acephalus, branded in fire across her back.