by Arturo Pérez-Reverte · ALFAGUARA · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788420482095
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«La piel del tambor» is the mystery novel by Arturo Pérez-Reverte, published by Alfaguara in paperback (589 pages, in Spanish).
A priest-agent of the Vatican specializing in delicate matters travels to Seville to investigate a baroque church where several deaths have occurred. In his investigation, he crosses paths with an Andalusian aristocrat and a hacker infiltrated in the Vatican, and the plot points to the docks of the Guadalquivir and the legacy of Captain Xaloc.
Originally published in 1995, it received in 1997 the Prix Jean-Monnet de littérature européenne du département de Charente and was nominated for the Dublin Literary Award in 2000.
For readers of crime and suspense novels who enjoy religious and historical mystery plots, with a very present Seville.
Periodista, ex reportero de guerra y novelista español, autor de la saga del capitán Alatriste y de novelas como La tabla de Flandes y El club Dumas.
