Under the friendly face of a television presenter (whether on the news or magazines), there often lies a latent writer. what of Carme Chaparro, Máximo Huerta or Christain Galvez and many others is a long enough list to link journalism and narrative as communicating vessels.
Sure, a familiar face has a few best-selling books to boot. But as I always say in a phrase that you will quickly recognize as exclusively mine: "The important thing is not to arrive but to stay".
In the case of Vicente Vallés, everything started from non-fiction. But I understand that when writing, making documentation compatible with an essay part, that subjective point germinates that can point to any type of fiction. If the matter also extracts aspects of reality to fable about international politics, espionage and other newsworthy aspects of the future of the world, then honey on flakes...
Top 3 recommended books by Vicente Vallés
Operation Kazan
The man of the news that Vicente Vallés is for so many viewers, arrives with a novel that could well be presented as a current story with which to start the headline of the current newscast. Because the thing is about Russia and that exhausting Cold War staged today on both sides of the iron curtains that seem to collapse on the stage of today's world. Like a dark plan materialized from some novel by Le Carré.
In 1922, the birth of a child in New York will change the history of the world a century later. The Soviet intelligence services design for that baby the most audacious espionage plan ever imagined. A few years later, Lavrenti Beria, the bloodthirsty Bolshevik police chief, will present this plan to Stalin, who will take over the operation and turn it into a personal and extremely secret mission, warning his executor of something very important: can't get out of hand. It will be the Operation Kazan.
Neither Beria nor Stalin will live to see how that boy born two decades ago in New York, and who has become a spy, completes his ambitious project, dormant for decades.
Already in our days, the rise to power in Moscow of an insatiable and reckless KGB agent will relaunch Operation Kazan, to sabotage the West and restore Russia to superpower status. But will it be successful? Will the Russian leader achieve his true goal of controlling the United States from the Kremlin? Will Stalin's order be carried out or will it get out of hand?
The protagonists of Operation Kazan travel from the Russian Revolution in 1917 to the American elections of the 1989st century, passing through the horrors of the Second World War, the Normandy landings, the Cold War, the fall of the Berlin Wall in 90, the collapse of the communist regimes in the XNUMXs and the current Russian interference in Western democracies. What role will the young spies Teresa Fuentes, from the Spanish CNI, and Pablo Perkins, from the CIA, play in the decisive phase of this intrigue?
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The Trail of the Dead Russians
We easily forget strange cases of first-rate leaders or soldiers with many badges who end up suffering accidents and fatal mishaps. Perhaps we park it because they worry us or, at worst, it is a matter of the daily overdose of information that seems to confer impunity on certain attacks or crimes. It never hurts to discover ins and outs that aim to clarify different cases on the international scene.
Through an intriguing chain of murders and unexplained deaths of Russian spies and diplomats around the world, Vicente Vallés immerses us in a story as exciting as it is real. Is Russia trying to destabilize and provoke crisis situations to win over Western public opinion? Is Donald Trump president of the United States thanks to the interference of Vladimir Putin? Are the gangsters who settled on the Spanish coast a transmission belt for the Kremlin? Have the Russian secret services manipulated democratic societies to condition electoral processes in France, the Netherlands, Germany, Spain or Italy?
Perhaps none of this has happened, but the power of Putin's Russia is that everyone believes it has. The former KGB agent is today the spy who dominates the world. Because wars are no longer won on the battlefields, but on the internet and on social networks.
Trump, by Vicente Valles
That he was not going to go unnoticed in the exercise of his presidency of the USA, we all knew that. Everyone made their speculations about the future of the world with Trump at the reins of one of the great world powers, the current beacon of the West. Here is a documented assessment that, although it contains the assessment part of him, always discloses aspects of the leader who, even out of power, seems capable of continuing to pull strings among the masses.
Donald Trump has achieved the unthinkable: winning the presidency of the United States against Hillary Clinton. No analyst expected it and everyone is now looking for explanations.
Vicente Vallés, a great connoisseur of the functioning of American politics, gives us in this book the keys to this victory, among which we must not lose sight of the following: «Donald Trump is more than just a histrionic and defiant guy. He has managed to be what many Americans were looking for: someone who would turn the country's political system, eaten away by decades of mannerisms and episodes of abuse, upside down.
