DAN VYLETA

Berlín, durante el gélido invierno de 1946: Pavel Richter, un soldado americano que se queda en la ciudad al fnalizar la guerra, necesita desesperadamente unos medicamentos. Cuando acude al mercado negro, Anders, un niño huérfano, le sigue con intención de robarle. Pero al comprobar que el soldado está gravemente enfermo, decide hacer todo lo posible por salvarle. Un día aparece en la puerta de la casa de Pavel el cadáver de un espía ruso. Sin saber cómo, Pavel y Anders se verán envueltos en una trama de conspiración que salpica a los gobiernos británico y ruso.Una original novela de intriga en tiempos de guerra, a la altura de El tercer hombre.

The laws of Smoke are complex. Not every lie will trigger it. A fleeting thought of evil may pass unseen; a fib, an excuse, a piece of flattery. Next thing you know its smell is in your nose. There is no more hateful smell in the world than the smell of Smoke. England. A century ago, give or take a few years. An England where people who are wicked in thought or deed are marked by the Smoke that pours forth from their bodies, a sign of their fallen state. The aristocracy do not smoke, proof of their virtue and right to rule, while the lower classes are drenched in sin and soot. An England utterly strange and utterly real. An elite boarding school where the sons of the wealthy are groomed to take power as their birthright. Teachers with mysterious ties to warring political factions at the highest levels of government. Three young people who learn everything theyve been taught is a lieknowledge that could cost them their lives. A grand estate where secrets lurk in attic rooms and hidden laboratories. A love triangle. A desperate chase. Revolutionaries and secret police. Religious fanatics and coldhearted scientists. Murder. A London filled with danger and wonder. A tortured relationship between a mother and a daughter, and a mother and a son. Unexpected villains and unexpected heroes. Cool reason versus passion. Rich versus poor. Right versus wrong, though which is which isnt clear. This is the world of Smoke, a narrative tour de force, a tale of Dickensian intricacy and ferocious imaginative power, richly atmospheric and intensely suspenseful.

Imagine a world in which every bad thought you had was made visible. Where anger, hatred and envy appeared as thick smoke pouring from your body and soot on your skin. With society controlled by an elite who have learned to tame their darkest desires. Thomas and Charlie are friends at a boarding school near Oxford, where the children of the rich and powerful are trained to be future leaders. Charlie is naturally good, but Thomas's father was accused of murder and Thomas fears that the same evil lies coiled inside him. Then, on a trip to London - a forbidden city shrouded in darkness - they learn that all is not as it appears. So begins a quest to find the truth, and to learn what lies beneath this world of smoke, soot and ash...'Mesmerising and imaginative ...a novel that tackles the most fundamental question of good versus evil' Hannah Beckerman, Observer 'Like an adult version of the Harry Potter books with a touch of Dickensian dystopia ...a sheer delight' Maxim Jakubowski, Lovereading 'A novel that stays in the imagination long after it is read' Adam Roberts, Guardian

Berlin, 1946. During one of the coldest winters on record, Pavel Richter, a decommissioned GI, finds himself at odds with a rogue British Army colonel and a Soviet General when a friend deposits the frozen body of a dead Russian spy in his apartment. Berlín, 1946. Durante uno de los inviernos más fríos que se recuerdan, Pavel Richter, un soldado desmovilizado, se encuentra en un problema con un rebelde coronel del Ejército Británico y con un general soviético, cuando un amigo le deja el cuerpo congelado de un espía ruso muerto en su apartamento.