La sombra del impostor

Eveline Clausen, the troubled protagonist, is the daughter of a German father and Jewish mother, who grows up during the ascension of Nazism. An autobiographical character that loses her naivety, innocence, begins to live avidly and intensely to dispel all the fears she's had since childhood. The men that pass through her life are similar means to avoid the hard reality of persecution and hunger, though they are also deceived by this young woman.

A foreigner on the Greek island of Brinos, alone in spite of being surrounded by young people who come to visit her house fascinated by the beauty of her body and her strange wisdom, the woman of Andros takes on the role of cult courtesan, and in a rigidly patriarchal society, finds internal strength to confront the sickness and most terrible gift of the gods.

Forensic anthropologist Tempe Brennan investigates religious-cult murders in a monkey preserve in North Carolina. She learns of a planned massacre in Quebec, where the novel's climax comes during a snow storm. By the author of Déjà Dead.

Ebook con un sumario dinámico y detallado: En el siglo III a. C., Cartago contrata mercenarios para enfrentarse a Roma. Tras la Primera Guerra Púnica, Cartago queda imposibilitada para cumplir las promesas hechas a su ejército de mercenarios, por lo que es atacada. Salambó, la protagonista ficticia —hija de Amílcar Barca, un general aristócrata cartaginés—, es objeto de la obsesiva lujuria de Matho, un líder de los mercenarios. Con la ayuda de un esclavo liberto, Spendios, Matho roba el velo sagrado de Cartago, el Zaïmph, provocando a Salambó para que entre en el campamento de...