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Falcó (novel)

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Falcó
AuthorArturo Pérez-Reverte
LanguageSpanish
PublisherAlfaguara
Publication date
2016
Publication placeSpain
Pages296
ISBN9788420428949

Falcó is a 2016 spy novel by the Spanish writer Arturo Pérez-Reverte.[1][2][3][4]

Plot

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Lorenzo Falcó is 37 years old and described as an "elegant thug".[1] He has no ideology and is recruited as an intelligence operative for the Nationalist faction during the Spanish Civil War. He is sent on a mission to infiltrate the Republicans and rescue José Antonio Primo de Rivera from prison in Alicante.

Series

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Falcó is the first entry in a trilogy of spy novels set during the Spanish Civil War. It was followed by Eva [es] (2017) and Sabotaje (2018).[5]

References

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  1. ^ a b Navarro, Justo (25 October 2016). "Un agente secreto contra todos". El País (in Spanish). Retrieved 7 January 2024.
  2. ^ "Pérez-Reverte: 'Tengo clarísimo que el franquismo era malo. No dedicaré una novela a explicar esa obviedad'". El Mundo (in Spanish). 19 October 2016. Retrieved 7 January 2024.
  3. ^ "Una visión desencantada de la Guerra Civil". El Mundo (in Spanish). 26 October 2016. Retrieved 7 January 2024.
  4. ^ García, Emilio Ramón (2019). "Contradicciones, falsos ideales y ruptura de de la mismidas en Falcó, de Arturo Pérez-Reverte". Anales de La Literatura Española Contemporánea. 44 (1): 89–110. JSTOR 26637165.
  5. ^ "Pérez-Reverte: "El querer ver al adversario exterminado o aniquilado es muy español"". El Periódico de Catalunya (in Spanish). 2 October 2018. Retrieved 7 January 2024.