The 3 best books by Javier Menéndez Flores

In the same way that Benjamín Prado, the closeness with the genius of Sabina could serve Javier Menendez Flores to awaken a literary vein that already makes up a considerable bibliography.

Coincidences aside, which can serve as a lead, Javier stands out especially in recent years where he seems to break definitively towards the novel and the black gender as a natural habitat.

It will not be surprising that little by little its eighties plots that seem to evoke pioneers of the police in Spain such as Gonzalez Ledesma, spread to other scenarios. Because in this criminal literature everything is to start ...

But beyond the undeniable projection in its fictional aspect, Menéndez Flores has achieved in his role as chronicler of all alternative culture, at night with treachery and perimeter of rock, to get closer to great characters and bands, also attesting in writing that music lover's taste for the myth between musical chords.

Top 3 recommended books by Javier Menéndez Flores

All of us

Beyond the technical investigations around crime, so fashionable for years now, it seems as if the great black genre plots are being lost. This novel combines a dark setting, characters from the case that covered the black history of Spain and a commendable taste for investigations to the infallible method of instinct and deduction.

Madrid, 1981. A couple of police inspectors investigate the fatal accident of a completely naked young woman whose autopsy reveals terrible injuries prior to the accident. Soon after, two girls of similar ages disappear.

All three were last seen at nightclubs. Thus begins an absorbing criminal intrigue, spanning two decades, in which the action and psychology of the characters masterfully intertwine. The Madrid of the end of the Transition, where the fierce Francoist methods were still alive, contrasts with that of an already established democracy although exposed to the dangers of the globalized world.

A novel that never ceases the reader thanks to its rhythm, suspense and violence, with an epic ending, as surprising as it is devastating, that reflects on the complexity of the human being and its darkest areas, but also on the almighty force of love .

All of us

The man that I was not

Sometimes it is a novel but it could well be chronicled. Only the truth is sometimes too uncomfortable to ensure that it has been rescued from the most stinking interstices of our underworld ...

Madrid, 1980. The murder of the Marquises of Urquijo, prominent members of the nobility and high finance, shocks the country. Among the suspects, aristocrats and commoners. Was it revenge? Was there an economic motive? Was a hit man hired? Did the CIA have something to do with it, or was the key to the mystery in the innermost circle of the victims?

A novel that, in addition to unraveling the keys to a crime as mysterious as it is media, tells a story of love and survival. A single and controversial conviction, which fails to clarify the crime, separates and unites two friends forever.

One, after several years in provisional prison, flees the country and builds a new life. The other is found dead in his cell. Suicide or also murder? After decades of speculation and all sorts of crazy theories surrounding the Urquijo case, this book delves into the past in an attempt to find the whole truth and make it known.

The man that I was not

Extremoduro: De profundis. Authorized story

They sounded with their discordant power, with an undeniable musical quality stubbornly opposed to everything conventional. And of course, they dragged masses, a multitude of boys with that dissatisfied soul who saw in the sounds and lyrics of Robe Iniesta's the scream they needed to utter.

“We don't know how important we are, but we do know that we are independent. We do things, basically, based on two variants: How we want and how we can. We do not do anything the other way around as anyone else, simply because we do nothing about how anyone else does. "
Extreme

Extreme He has been on stage for more than 25 years offering his way of doing rock, a rock that Roberto Iniesta, leader and soul of the group, has baptized as transgressive and that has endowed his entire discography with a coherence that has broken all trends creating by the way a style of its own and, even more, unique.

This book, in addition to a tribute and a journey through their trajectory, is a deep analysis of the imaginary of this band and its leader through their lyrics, loaded with poetry, their common places and a whole way of understanding life with which have achieved an authentic legion of followers.

Extreme is currently considered by many music critics as well as by other Spanish artists as the best Spanish rock group in history and his voice, Roberto Iniesta, as the best lyricist. This book pays tribute to the millions of followers who do not stop listening to their music, buying their records and going to their concerts and who want to go through their musical history on paper and, above all, discover unusual aspects of a band that never gives interviews. A gem for fans.

Extremoduro: De profundis. Authorized story
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