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Breaking Lorca

Giles Blunt

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English
Random House Inc
23 February 2010
NATIONAL BESTSELLER ""A tour de force, sorrowing and direct, sharp as a knife blade, beautifully written--an unforgettable window into the human capacity for cruelty and courage."" The Globe and Mail

A master crime writer trains every weapon in his arsenal on a crime against humanity.

In 1980s El Salvador, a young woman is detained in a government

torture squad's head-quarters, suspected of supporting guerilla forces. There, a

bookish new recruit, Victor Pena, is assigned to assist in her interrogation. Before

they learn so much as her name-Lorca-the squad relentlessly break her, body and

soul. It is a terrifying journey into human cruelty and courage, one which years

later-in the pinnacle of cosmopolitan America-still haunts the tormentor as dramatically

as it does his victim.
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Imprint:   Random House Inc
Country of Publication:   United States
Dimensions:   Height: 203mm,  Width: 132mm,  Spine: 20mm
Weight:   232g
ISBN:   9780307357014
ISBN 10:   0307357015
Pages:   272
Publication Date:  
Audience:   General/trade ,  ELT Advanced
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active

GILES BLUNT grew up in North Bay, Ontario, and spent twenty years in New York City as a novelist and a scriptwriter for such shows as Law and Order, Street Legal and Night Heat, before making his home in Toronto. He is the author of the bestselling Cardinal crime series, featuring Algonquin Bay's John Cardinal and Lise Delorme, which has been made into a TV series for CTV. He is widely considered ""one of Canada's top crime novelists"" (The Globe and Mail) and among ""crime drama's elite"" (Publishers Weekly). He is a two-time winner of the Arthur Ellis Award for Best Novel and a recipient of the British Crime Writers' Macallan Silver Dagger.

Reviews for Breaking Lorca

An utterly vivid, completely disturbing account of how thugs with authority unrestrained by the rule of law and untempered by the quality of mercy can go about the physical, mental and emotional destruction of a person. - The Gazette Giles Blunt writes with uncommon grace, style and compassion and he plots like a demon. - Jonathan Kellerman, The New York Times bestselling author of Capital Crimes A tour de force, sorrowing and direct, sharp as a knife blade, beautifully written - an unforgettable window into the human capacity for cruelty and courage. - The Globe and Mail


  • Nominated for International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award 2011

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