by Thierry Jonquet · FisicalBook · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788433436115
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«Tarántula» is the suspense novel by Thierry Jonquet, published in the Etiqueta Negra collection by Júcar in paperback (165 pages, in Spanish).
Plastic surgeon Richard Lafargue keeps a beautiful young woman named Ève locked up, while a psychiatric patient, a thief who has killed a policeman, and a missing motorcyclist cross their paths. Revenge and desire weave a web that traps all the characters in a thriller of growing horror.
Work originally published as «Mygale» in 1984; it was adapted to film by Pedro Almodóvar in «La piel que habito».
Suitable for fans of crime fiction and psychological thrillers, with a dark atmosphere and a plot of revenge.
Thierry Jonquet was a French writer who specialised in crime novels with political themes. He was born in Paris; his most recent and best known novel outside France was Mygale (1984), then published in the US in 2003 by City Lights. Mygale was also published in the UK as Tarantula in 2005. He wrote over 20 novels in French, including Le bal des débris, Moloch and Rouge c'est la vie.
