El Fuego Invisible / The Invisible Fire

GANADOR DEL PREMIO PLANETA 2017

El secreto más importante de la humanidad está a punto de ser revelado.

David Salas, un prometedor lingüista del Trinity College de Dublín, se encuentra, después 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 trastocará sus planes y lo empujará a una sorprendente carrera por averiguar qué 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 vinculación con España. Remotas iglesias románicas de los Pirineos, colecciones de arte en Barcelona, libros antiguos y extraños códigos en piedra se alinean en una trama llena de intriga que nos hará pensar sobre el origen de toda inspiración, literatura y arte verdaderos.

ENGLISH DESCRIPTION

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

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 María Jesús de Ágreda, 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."