La farmacéutica : 492 días secuestrada

"On November 20, 1992, Maria Àngels Feliu Bassols, a pharmacist from Olot, was kidnapped. This woman, a mother of three, spent sixteen months underground, buried alive in a hole the size of a wardrobe. Spiders, ants, rats, snakes, and dampness were her companions in captivity." Thus begins the incredibly true story of one of the most extreme cases in Spanish criminal history. That crime became a human tragedy whose investigation, riddled with police and judicial errors, was accompanied by shameful examples of tabloid journalism. To make matters worse, Maria Àngels's captors proved incapable of completing the express kidnapping they had planned. All they managed to do was prolong the ordeal of a woman who survived such adverse circumstances thanks to her determination and mental fortitude. After her release, it took another five years for those responsible to be arrested and four more for them to be brought to trial. After thoroughly reviewing the information generated by the event, Carles Porta has reconstructed the entire case, weaving it into a single narrative thread. There is no other such rigorous recreation of all the interwoven stories surrounding the kidnapping of the pharmacist from Olot. Without a doubt, with this book, Porta establishes himself as one of the masters of narrative journalism in Spain.