3 best books by Fernando Rueda

Everywhere they boil beans. Even in this place called Spain we find those closed spaces, little ventilated and with hardly any light where the mechanism of the underworld is organized.

Ferdinand Wheel it knows all the accesses to some sewers of the State that in the end could compose a supply network extended by any country worth its salt. Because the old balances of this world pull on springs that sometimes exceed the ethical.

That there have always been spies or interior agents in charge of transferring privileged information and of distributing if you touch shoe polish, is something that was made clear to us with great literary splendor (see John le Carré, Frederick forsyth or others) during the cold war.

Only in the case of Fernando Rueda, in addition to being his own product, he delves into much more recent aspects to explain the intensity of the social and political earthquakes whose epicenter is located just above the famous sewers. Almost always recounted from the deep throat of his star character rescued from reality: the Wolf.

With that fictionalized point of who needs to bury reality in fiction, Fernando Rueda offers us readings to learn about containment mechanisms under our world, underground interventions, controlled blasting if it touches ..., all in sewers with entry and exit from offices of all kinds.

Top 3 recommended books by Fernando Rueda

The return of the wolf

There were two great wolves in Spain in the 70s and 80s. One was the wolf Carrasco, of whom a servant admired his gallops through the gang, and the other was Mikel Lejarza, infiltrated in the terrorist gang ETA to make it implode thanks to his task as a spy.

The point is that the wolf Carrasco prolonged his sports career from the micros, as a commentator. While the wolf Lejarza had to hide for decades after revealing himself as the greatest of the Spanish spies past the Franco regime, nothing better than to novelize his life or much of it with morbid, admiration, hatred or whatever. bring each one closer to the character.

Can a man endure to live 30 years continually changing his identity? Is there anyone capable of withstanding the stress and fear of infiltrating terrorist groups and gangsters over and over again without losing self-confidence and that of those around him? Mikel Lejarza, alias "Lobo", was a young bearded man when He was captured by the secret service to infiltrate the terrorist group ETA. The result was spectacular: more than 200 terrorists were arrested and their infrastructure throughout Spain deactivated. Undergoing cosmetic surgery so that no one would ever identify him again, he infiltrated mafia and economic groups, without ceasing to this day to fight against ETA and international terrorism.

After infiltrating Catalonia into a high-level corporate espionage network, he is arrested without the secret service coming to the fore to defend that he was working for them. "Wolf" is tired of living in hiding, his stomach suffers the consequences of so much stress, he questions the loneliness in which he lives and meditates abandoning espionage. Some time later he disappears carrying many secrets of his past life in his pack. No one heard from him until shortly after the 11/XNUMX attacks on the United States. The CIA discovers in an anti-terrorist operation against Al Qaeda in Dubai that one of the Arabs involved is Mikel Lejarza.

If you don't work for any intelligence service: what are you doing in the most dangerous gang in the world? The world of espionage, which Fernando Rueda, the leading Spanish specialist in the field, knows so well, is the protagonist of this novel. But so is love, discouragement, suffering, the traumatic consequences of dual personality, values, dreams, and disappointment.

Massive destruction

Maybe it was because Aznar got engaged to Bush. The point is that those comings and goings of calculations on the availability of weapons of mass destruction could hide something else. Despite the fact that, in the end, not even Aznar himself seemed to attend to the dark work of the CNI.

This is the story based on true events of a group of spies who, since 2000, played it in Iraq to obtain valuable information for the Government and from 2003 to protect the Spanish troops stationed there after the invasion of the country led by Bush , The president of United States. CNI agents persecuted by the fearsome Mujabarat, with conflicting relations with Shiite terrorist groups, with valuable sources in the Government of Saddam Hussein, who did not give up their mission despite knowing that many wanted to kill them, their own secret service did not protect them as it should have, and the Aznar government despised his high-quality information, determined to seek a predominant place in international politics.

In the especially notorious and mysterious tale, Fernando Rueda has printed a surprising twist. After creating a compelling narrative that emphasizes who the protagonists were, how the secret events occurred, and why they happened, create a new ending. As Joaquín Llamas, a film and television director, says: «Who tells you that it did not happen as you tell it?».

House II: CNI: Agents, secret operations and unspeakable actions of Spanish spies

Little is left to the imagination with this title that already clarifies the opening in the channel of the system to delve into a second part where it seems that everything flows more naturally. And it is that open the floodgates, the torrent of information is complemented with subjective notions of many of those spies and analysts in charge of maintaining such an unstable equilibrium as is the current world.

25 years after the appearance of La Casa broke the wall of silence about the agents, secret operations and activities of the Spanish spies of the then CESID, its author, Fernando Rueda, has carried out a new and long investigation, in which he has dived for the secrets that his replacement, the current CNI, hides.

The book has been written with the aim of uncovering what Spanish espionage has become and how it works - since it changed its name in 2002 - discovering the life, feelings and operations of its most important agents, but also the of those others whose names we do not know and who risk their lives daily in their work A rigorous essay that brings to light the most unknown actions by public opinion and that denounces the unfair behavior of agents and the responsibility of some directors in serious errors committed throughout its history.

Here the reader will find how the CNI acts in the fight against jihadist terrorism, the actions that managed to put an end to ETA, and unravel the relationships and hidden investigations with the King, the Government, various political leaders, Catalonia, the Police and some others . Just as he shows how the United States, Russia, Morocco and other countries violate our security and how the "invisible" technological means spy on us daily and also on thousands and thousands of people abroad.