GANADOR DEL PREMIO PLANETA 2017

El secreto mas importante de la humanidad esta a punto de ser revelado.

David Salas, un prometedor linguista del Trinity College de Dublin, se encuentra, despues de aterrizar en Madrid para pasar sus vacaciones, con Victoria Goodman, una vieja amiga de sus abuelos y con su joven ayudante, una misteriosa historiadora del arte. Ese hecho trastocara sus planes y lo empujara a una sorprendente carrera por averiguar que ha sucedido con una de los alumnos de la escuela de literatura que regenta lady Goodman. Para su sorpresa, la clave parece esconderse en el mito del grial y su vinculacion con Espana. Remotas iglesias romanicas de los Pirineos, colecciones de arte en Barcelona, libros antiguos y extranos codigos en piedra se alinean en una trama llena de intriga que nos hara pensar sobre el origen de toda inspiracion, literatura y arte verdaderos.

ENGLISH DESCRIPTION

Javier Sierra (Teruel, 1971), the king of Spanish conspirative
thriller (C. Geli, El Pais)

El fuego invisible is
Sierra’s eighth novel. Its protagonist is a young university professor and
researcher from Dublin who spends a few days in Madrid. There he gets into
dangerous investigations following the traces of the mythic Holy Grail. The
novel, according to its author, revolves around a word invented in the 12th
century: Grail. And around the question of where the ideas come.

A fast-paced narration and a tremendous erudition about the topic (the
author tends to have visited all the scenarios where his plots happen) mark a
novel that fits well with the Sierra brand, well defined already in 1998 when
he debuted with La dama de azul [The lady in blue: a novel] in which, using
the figure of the 17th century nun Maria Jesus de Agreda, detained by the
Inquisition, he plays with his famous bilocations to weave a plot with
psychic CIA spies and experts from the Vatican. The success… was ratified
with The Secret Supper, which he constructed from supposed criptic messages
on the canvas of The Last Supper by Leonardo da Vinci and that brought Sierra
to global fame, being published in 42 countries and selling more than three
million copies. … He has been called the Spanish Dan Brown, but better
documented.