The 3 best books by Éric Giacometti

Beside Jacques ravenne, Eric Giacometti It forms one of those prolific narrative tandems for the glory of the noir genre. And two minds surely give more of themselves to perfect a criminal plot with its twists and turns. I refer to the facts in cases such as those of lars kepler (pseudonym that already brings together its two authors), Vicente Garrido with Nieves Abarca or lincoln kid with Douglas preston.

El team formed by Giacometti and Ravenne is currently the most successful in France in the black genre, with series devoured by readers who are most fond of this fast-paced noir in which curator Antoine Marcas is one of the great references. Live and efficient plots with your quick glimpse into a world of the underworld perfectly integrated into fiction from its most real reflection.

The question for this type of literary equipment is to find the ideal series. And these two writers have found in their Black Sun trilogy the story with a hook to be replicated to a greater extent internationally. The resource of historical mystery is a perfect wardrobe for best-selling narrators, Nazism as a resource for horrors already inserted also in the fictional imagination, the perfect seasoning...

Top 3 recommended novels by Éric Giacometti

The triumph of darkness

The beginning of a saga more tending to suspense than to the black genre, a new setting for the creators of the commissioner Marcas in which that passion for adventure is distilled, that desire to disturb and surprise in a compendium of classic arguments with a novel resolution .

Tibet, January 1939. An SS expedition seizes a swastika carved from an unknown metal. It is one of the relics that symbolize the four elements: fire, air, water and earth. According to an ancient prophecy, whoever possesses them will become the master of the world.

Spain, January 1939. Tristán, adventurer and French art dealer united to the republican cause, participates together with a group of soldiers in the looting of the Montserrat monastery. Shortly after the end of the war, he ended up in a Francoist cell where a powerful German officer, the head of the Anhenerbe, proposed a deal to him.

England, 1940. Commander Malorley, agent of the new British secret service, organizes an operation to prevent the Nazis from obtaining the relics. The fight between the "Star" and the "Swastika", which will determine the outcome of the Second World War, gets under way.

The triumph of darkness

The relic of chaos

The closing of the series del Sol Negro achieves in this installment that contradictory effect between the full satisfaction of a highly entertaining, dynamic and suspense-charged reading and the farewell of some characters with whom the great adventure is lived.

The outcome of the war is more uncertain than ever. While England seems to have ruled out the German invasion, Stalin's Russia retreats before the advance of the Wehrmacht troops.

Tristan, who after the events in Venice fears that Erika will discover her loyalties, follows the trail of the Romanov jewels through the labyrinth of the Paris catacombs. The agent will meet the Gestapo countesses and will alternate with the collaborationist elite, indifferent to the recent events of the winter velodrome, until he finds the clue that will lead him to the fourth swastika.

In England, Commander Malorley, Laure d'Estillac and the eccentric Aleister Crowley closely follow in the footsteps of Moira O'Connor, the scarlet-haired sorceress sympathetic to the Germans. Until the appearance in the streets of London of a series of corpses with a Nazi swastika engraved on their foreheads puts the young French woman on guard.

The relic of chaos

The night of evil

The paradigm of the second parts that loses a bit of intensity. It is not that it is a bad novel but the development is more like the transition of an already predetermined trilogy. It's not that there is no action, and the characters continue to dazzle us, but it lacks a bit of punch.

In November 1941 Germany is very close to winning the war. However, for Himmler, leader of the SS, victory will only be final when the Nazis manage to seize a sacred swastika that has disappeared somewhere in Europe. To find it, the Anhenerbe excavates the legendary city of Knossos on the island of Crete.

Meanwhile, in London, Commander Malorley, a member of the British secret service, tries to extract the secrets of his prisoner Rudolf Hess, specialist in esotericism of the SS. For this he has the collaboration of the enigmatic Aleister Crowley. The British officer knows that to defeat the Nazis it is essential to find that swastika before they do.

Berlin, London, Wewelsburg Castle and Mussolini's Italy will be the scenes of the final game that will decide the future of Europe. A challenge whose last move will require facing Hitler himself. Double agents, ancient prophecies and esotericism, a gripping adventure across a burning continent.

The night of evil
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