Lobo

A fire at a Madrid metro station in the 1980s unearths the charred remains of a body whose identity remains a mystery to the police. Inspectors Batista and Esquivel embark on a trail of a mysterious bibliophile or forger whose whereabouts are unknown to everyone. The trail leads to another time and another investigation, one conducted thirty years earlier and linked to Madrid's Retiro Park and a series of macabre, still unsolved murders. The plot of this novel unleashes a series of misunderstandings that lead the investigators to believe that the line between truth and lies is razor-thin. They will delve into a perverse labyrinth that will lead them to the threshold of the unbelievable: a love story in which everything obvious is suspected of being unreal when a terrifying, unexpected element appears. An unusual novel of love and terror, Lobo offered a fresh perspective on the crime thriller genre when it was first published in 2000. Now it is being reissued in a revised edition. Luis Mateo Díez has written of it: 'Anyone who has read other books by Adolfo García Ortega will easily find in Lobo the thread of continuity not only in his writing, his penchant for investigation and the strangeness of the everyday, but also in the innovative approach of his fables.'