'A dark, disturbing novel, from a writer with a profound understanding of a dictatorship's inner workings' The Times
'Powerful and troubling' Daily Mail
Antonio Martens is a torturer for the secret police of a recently defunct South American dictatorship. Now imprisoned, he begins to recount his involvement in the surveillance, torture and assassination of Federigo and Enrique Salinas, a prominent father and son whose principled but passive opposition to the regime left them vulnerable to the secret police. Preying upon the young boy's aimless life, the secret police began to position him as a subversive element, before they turned their attentions to his father. Once the plan was set into motion, any means were justified to reach the regime's chosen end...
'A sophisticated and brilliant dissection of nihilistic power and its servants' Times Literary Supplement
