The Confusion of the Unicorn, by Paco Muñoz Botas

La Novelty it can be truffled with a multitude of condiments. It is a search for the most unavoidable enrichment in a genre that tops the best-selling shelves of any bookstore. Because, let's face it, we like to read misadventures in the midst of chaos; gruesome cases in the form of entanglements where vileness, misery and longing for prosperity justify any intervention of its characters.

Something like this points this novel "The confusion of the unicorn" with evocations to that Tom sharpe who taught us to combine humor with noir to end up composing sets never before presented. Because human ambitions have a lot of both extremes between the ridiculous, the grotesque and the surreal, and the tragic made into comedy.

Nothing better for this than broadening the focus towards several characters that weave the spider web where readers are trapped. It is the magic of those microcosms transferred to the black-on-white world of literature that manage to mimic us with a diversity of characters in search of that growth at all costs. A task to which Paco Muñoz Botas delivers himself with surgical precision.

Of course, among all the plethora of personalities towards the noise, or the controlled explosion of a very well put together plot, we enjoy juicy profiles like Álvaro's to a greater extent. In him we find the stereotype of the flawless winner in the face of appearances that his reputation demands at the helm of a prestigious bank. Only that no one is the same person from the inside out, even less this type of people loaded with apparent goodness but delivered to the shadows of their most unsuspected affiliations...

Every good man always finds his nemesis in works of fiction and in reality. Álvaro's assignments next to him Mr Hyde can be very expensive. In the harassment and attempted takedown, which we see hovering over Álvaro by the work and grace of the disturbing Knepougel, we enjoy that taste for the decline of the false idols of the stock market Olympus, finances and unspeakable vices.

Between plans and the never inconsiderable coincidences with their unforeseen events, the story advances with aromas of that turn that can come at any time to leave us speechless. For this, the providential appearance of Blanchet makes the plot take off towards new assumptions. And it is that in human relations there is no triangle that is sustained. Neither in love nor in crime...

A novel that is worth tasting stopping at those truffled nuances that I initially pointed to. We can not miss any detail as the development becomes complicated, like any good suspense novel. The scenery between the wealthiest Madrid, where wills and interests of the darkest take root, ends up signing a perfect presentation for a fascinating thriller development.

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