Breaking Lorca

A master crime writer trains every weapon in his arsenal on a crime against humanity. A literary novel that treads fearlessly into one of recent history's most shocking moral crucibles. In 1980s El Salvador, a young woman is detained in a government torture squad's head-quarters, suspected of supporting guerilla forces. There, a bookish new recruit, Victor Pena, is assigned to assist in her interrogation. Before they learn so much as her name Lorca the squad relentlessly break her, body and soul. It is a terrifying journey into human cruelty and courage, one which years later in the pinnacle of cosmopolitan America still haunts the tormentor as dramatically as it does his victim.

Giles Blunt grew up in North Bay, Ontario. After spending over twenty years in New York City, he now lives in Toronto. He is the author of four crime novels set in the fictional city of Algonquin Bay and featuring John Cardinal as well as No Such Creature, which Random House Canada will publish in fall 2008. He lives in Toronto.


From the Hardcover edition.