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GANADOR DEL PREMIO PLANETA 2017 El secreto m s importante de la humanidad est a punto de ser revelado. David Salas, un prometedor ling ista del Trinity College de Dubl n, se encuentra, despu s 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 trastocar sus planes y lo empujar a una sorprendente carrera por averiguar qu 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 vinculaci n con Espa a. Remotas iglesias rom nicas de los Pirineos, colecciones de arte en Barcelona, libros antiguos y extra os c digos en piedra se alinean en una trama llena de intriga que nos har pensar sobre el origen de toda inspiraci n, literatura y arte verdaderos. ENGLISH DESCRIPTION Javier Sierra (Teruel, 1971), "the king of Spanish conspirative thriller" (C. Geli, El Pa s) 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 Mar a Jes s de greda, 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."

Sent by Pope Alejandro VI to oversee the completion of Da Vinci's "The Last Supper" at the beginning of 1497, Dominican inquisitor Fray Agustin Leyre investigates the master artist's omission of key elements and use of symbolic imagery, which suggests that a mysterious message has been coded into the painting. Reprint. 200,000 first printing.

An elaborately woven novel of intrigue about one of America's most curious and enduring legends -- the enigma of the Lady in Blue In Los Angeles, Jennifer Narody has been having a series of disturbing dreams involving eerie images of a lady dressed in blue. What she doesn't know is that this same spirit appeared to leaders of the Jumano Native American tribe in New Mexico 362 years earlier, and was linked to a Spanish nun capable of powers of "bilocation," or the ability to be in two places simultaneously. Meanwhile, young journalist Carlos Albert is driven by a blinding snowstorm to the little Spanish town of greda, where he stumbles upon a nearly forgotten seventeenth-century convent founded by this same legendary woman. Intrigued by her rumored powers, he delves into finding out more. These threads, linked by an apparent suicide, eventually lead Carlos to Cardinal Baldi, to an American spy, and ultimately to Los Angeles, where Jennifer Narody unwittingly holds the key to the mystery that the Catholic Church, the U.S. Defense Department, and the journalist are each determined to decipher -- the Lady in Blue.

"Javier Sierra, autor del bestseller internacional" LA CENA SECRETA, "nos ofrece ahora una novela de misterio e intriga sobre una de las leyendas mas antiguas y extranas de America -la dama azul." En Los Angeles, Jennifer Narody, antigua espia del Departamento de Defensa, suena repetidamente con una fantasmagorica mujer vestida de azul. Jennifer no lo sabe, pero ese mismo espiritu se aparecio mas de tres siglos atras a los jefes de una tribu indigena de Nuevo Mexico. Al parecer, la verdadera responsable de aquellos sucesos fue una monja espanola que podia "bilocarse" -esto es, que tenia la habilidad de estar en dos lugares a la vez. Mientras, en Espana, una nevada deja aislado al periodista Carlos Albert en el remoto pueblo de Agreda. Alli conocera el convento que fundo en el siglo XVII aquella mujer de habitos azules. Intrigado por sus poderes, decide investigar. Estos hilos, unidos por el presunto suicidio de un sacerdote en Roma, llevaran a Carlos hasta Los Angeles, donde las pesadillas de Jennifer Narody guardan la clave de un misterio que la Iglesia Catolica, el Departamento de Defensa de los Estados Unidos y otras misteriosas fuerzas de las que es mejor no hablar, estan empenados en ocultar. El secreto de las bilocaciones de la dama azul esta en juego.

New York Times bestselling author Javier Sierra returns with a heartpounding, apocalyptic thriller about mankind's most ancient desire--and the modern evil some will unleash to obtain it. New York Times bestselling author Javier Sierra returns with a heart-pounding thriller about mankind's most ancient desire--and the modern evil some will unleash to obtain it. In approximately seventy-two hours, a little-known Middle Eastern terrorist group plans to bring about the end of the world. Convinced that they are the descendants of angels and on the verge of at last returning to heaven, they kidnap scientist Martin Faber, whose research has uncovered an extraordinary secret. Martin's only hope for survival is the rare psychic gift of his young wife. But Julia Alvarez must find the courage to save her husband while running from religious extremists and clandestine government agencies. Javier Sierra takes readers on an exhilarating international adventure, from the summit of legendary Mount Ararat to the high desert of New Mexico, from the monuments of Washington, DC, to the medieval city of Santiago de Compostela in Spain. The Lost Angel bears all the hallmarks of the beloved author's erudite yet fast-paced brand of storytelling, combining historical fact and fiction with dazzling narrative surprises.