Fortress of Evil

A Terra Alta Investigation

Javier Cercas, Anne McLean

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MacLehose Press
29 July 2025

Crime & Mystery; Fiction in translation

A father's worst nightmare - Melchor Marin's teenage daughter has disappeared.

Years have passed since Melchor took revenge for his mother's murder and at last found peace with his daughter Cosette in the sleepy backwater of Terra Alta.

But their idyll is shattered when one day Cosette, now seventeen, discovers that her father has been concealing the truth of her mother's death- that she was killed in a hit-and-run ""accident"" intended to scare Melchor off a case.

Angry and betrayed, Cosette disappears to Mallorca with her friend Elisa. And that's the last Melchor hears of her. His texts and calls go unanswered, and when she returns alone, Elisa can only say Cosette needed ""space to think"".

Now the former policeman has no choice but to travel to Port de Pollen a, where his daughter was last seen alive, and enter the dark, looking-glass world of Swedish-American billionaire Rafael Mattson.

Translated from the Spanish by Anne McLean

PRAISE FOR EVEN THE DARKEST NIGHT - WINNER OF THE CWA DAGGER FOR CRIME FICTION IN TRANSLATION

""A gem of a book, easily the best I've read this year"" M W Craven

""A wonderful novel. I look forward to many more Melchor stories"" A N Wilson, Tablet

""Promises to be an excellent series""

Guardian

By: Javier Cercas
Translated by: Anne McLean
Imprint: MacLehose Press
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 236mm, Width: 160mm, Spine: 40mm
Weight: 590g
ISBN: 9781529436204
ISBN 10: 1529436206
Pages: 384
Publication Date: 29 July 2025
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Forthcoming

Javier Cercas was born in 1962. He is a novelist, short-story writer and columnist, whose books include Soldiers of Salamis (which sold more than a million copies worldwide, won six literary awards in Spain and was filmed by David Trueba), The Tenant and The Motive, The Speed of Light and The Anatomy of a Moment. His books have been translated into more than twenty languages. He lives in Barcelona.