Algo va mal

"Something is wrong. There is something wrong here," said the commissioner in charge of the case, pointing to one of the two bodies that appeared in the photo with its face disfigured by the impact of a bullet. The corpse of Cosme Damián, media mogul and editor of the influential El Diario, appears in his hotel room in Amsterdam on the eve of one of the elite international Bilderberg Club meetings he was to attend. The intrigue takes place in settings that transport the reader to the private meetings of the Bilderberg Club in the days before the Iraq war; to Paris from the secret world of art traffic; to Berlin when the Stasi, the fearsome political police of the GDR, communist Germany still operated; or Gibraltar, a port of shady business and a refuge for spies. A frenetic thriller in which the author puts his experience as a journalist with intelligence and narrative strength and builds a steely portrait of the not always clean relationship between the press and power, with corruption as a backdrop in the Spain of our time. days.