Argentine narrative also enjoys a thriving plethora of authors who, with more or less constancy or alternation, delve into the black genre, achieving that magical effect of location, of the literary miscegenation of a genre that is perfectly adapted to any country or region. Because evil as narrative sustenance unfortunately proliferates connatural to the human condition.
Recent cases like those of Florence Etcheves o keke ferrari, both cultivators of a black genre with an Argentine philosophical residue, a wisdom of the street that perfectly matches the search for the essence of evil and its mechanisms to perpetuate itself in any society.
In addition to the aforementioned, as well as many others such as the veteran Raúl Argemí or the young Horacio Convertini, the figure of Jorge Fernández Díaz stands out greatly on this side of the Atlantic coasts.
Clearly Jorge Fernández Díaz is one of the most acclaimed Argentine authors of the black genre in Spain. Since he began his literary career in the mid-80s, this author has been combining publications in editorials here and there, consolidating himself from a police support towards a traditionally black theme, that is, capable of entering the dark tunnels that communicate the spheres of power with the underworld of corruption, drugs, drug trafficking or any other area of dark business.
It is always enlightening to walk through the pages of Jorge Fernández Díaz to be surprised by an imaginative proposal that in turn is capable of making us consider the underground functioning of our society ...
Top 3 recommended novels by Jorge Fernández Díaz
The wound
Nobody gets rid of corruption. Not even the Church. It is already known that the Vatican, with its clear power structure, its bank and its ability to intervene with authority against states can become a target of the underworld. You just have to find the corruptible person.
If in the previous book of this saga: The Dagger, we immersed ourselves in a case of dark business and political interests, all seasoned by organized crime structures, on this new occasion we enjoy another even more ambitious plot, where the highest levels social networks are affected by organized crime.
Globalization as a parallel market where you can buy all wills. The powers that govern us in question. The world about to be delivered to evil.
Conducive victims to execute perverse plans with which to launder money and traffic everything. Agent Remil, who already won us over in the previous novel with his particular modus operandi, his intuition to detect traps that anticipate plot twists and his contradictory soul capable of the best and the worst.
A story built on several plots between thriller, police, ecclesiastical and human. A perfect cocktail, mixed with that fine skill of the narrator who mixes all the components in a proportionate way for a pleasant balance on the reader's palate.
The dagger
The origins and vital foundations of Remil. From his role as a military man who led him to the Malvinas to the Argentine intelligence services, eager for unscrupulous agents and determined to carry out any action for the good of the country. Any resemblance with the reality is mere coincidence.
And yet, Remil serves the ideology that things really work in a hidden way, through military commanders capable of putting anyone under suspicion and investigating beyond what is strictly legal. Except that the sense of power of an intelligence agency that works in the shadows, under the rule of its own ethical criteria, can end up becoming a drain for corruption and falsehood, for false covert missions for greater glory and wealth of the shift manager.
Remil is in charge of his new mission, to protect Nuria Menéndez, sent from Spain to promote business around wine growing. Although perhaps Nuria is not a fragile person who requires special protection.
She knows how to carry out the business she has entrusted to her, and she is willing to do anything to achieve it. The eternal passions of love move a Tarantine plot full of implicit sex and explicit violence, a fascinating novel about the fragile morals of each other.
The lodge of Cádiz
The case of José San Martín is the case of the hero on both sides of the Atlantic Ocean. Military and outstanding combatant in Spain against Napoleon and finally a great participant in the liberation of various American countries such as his original homeland, Argentina, Peru or Chile.
The novel focuses on the history of this character at the time of the Napoleonic invasion of the Iberian Peninsula in 1808. In the case of this author who is usually busy in the noir genre, but focused on a historical novel on this occasion, the plot progresses loaded with rhythm.
With the organization of the so-called lodge of Cádiz, whose interests move the future of the conflict towards one direction or another, we delve into the unique profile of this character who years later would face the same Spanish army to liberate colonized America and, in the process, the The author takes the opportunity to fill the plot, to fill it with suggestive moments of passion and disagreements, internal conflicts, plots and bloody fights.
