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Humor y fantasía para contar la idiosincrasia de la España del siglo XX en un libro lúcidamente cínico y extravagante. -Un pescadero que vende género podrido valiéndose de curiosos sofismas; los infortunios de un empresario que transforma un valle del País Vasco en desierto; el pasmo de un Rey ante un puchero preparado en las Hurdes por una vieja capaz de elaborar alta cocina espontánea; un jubilado a la busca de animales extinguidos; un exorcista que ejerce en Benidorm atraído por la arquitectura aberrante o la amistad entre un farero y un jipi que terminan convertidos en...

Renée Ballard works the night shift in Hollywood. She starts many investigations, but never finishes any because she hands her cases over to the detectives who work the day shift. Once a rising star in the police department, she received this assignment after accusing a superior of sexual harassment. One evening, she is given two cases she doesn't want to let go of: a brutal beating of a prostitute who is left for dead and the murder of a waiter during a shootout at a night club. Against orders and the her partner's wishes, she continues to investigate after her shift ends. As she delves...

Archeologist Isaac Cohen has no idea that he will set in motion possible armagedon-like conditions when he discovers, in a library hidden away in a Tuareg city, a mysterious and omnious fifteenth-century manuscript written by a Jew from the Spanish city of Toledo, who had to flee from there during a horrible three-day religious uprising in 1467 known as "The Magdalena Fires."