by José Carlos Somoza · Plaza & Janés · tapa dura · ISBN 9788401336508
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«La llave del abismo» is the futuristic thriller novel by José Carlos Somoza, published by Plaza & Janés in hardcover (525 pages, in Spanish).
The routine of Daniel Kean, a railway employee, changes when he discovers a passenger with a bomb. To save his family, he travels with a blind girl and a bibliophile from Japan to the ends of the Earth in search of the Key of the Abyss and the truth about the entity that rules the world. A reflection on faith and religious violence.
Winner of the VI Ciudad de Torrevieja Novel Prize 2007, published in first edition in October 2007.
Readers of futuristic thrillers and mystery novels, as well as those seeking speculative fiction with a religious background.
José Carlos Somoza Ortega is a Spanish author. He was born in Havana, Cuba. In 1960 his family moved to Spain after being exiled for being from a bourgeoisie class. His family proved to be in difficult financial situation after having moved to Spain because they had been forbidden to take anything along except their child. And there were a lot of friends who helped them a lot during their first years in Spain. He holds a Bachelor's Degree in psychiatry, but he gave up medicine in order to become a full-time writer in 1994. Since 1994 he made his first steps in writing and sent his works to the different literature competitions, to magazines and publishers all over Spain. And his first book was published the same year. When his fifth novel The Cave of Ideas obtained an international acknowledge, he realized that he had chosen the right route in his life.
