Outlaws

Author’s Note

This novel would not have been possible without the collaboration of Francisco Pamplona and, especially, Carles Monguilod, whose book Vint-i-cinc anys i un dia was one of the initial spurs to this story. Aside from them, Carmen Balcells and David Trueba read a draft and provided extremely useful observations. I’ve borrowed from Antony Beevor an expression I heard him use over dinner in London, one evening in the winter of 2011. What the books I’ve written over the last twenty-five years and I owe to Jordi Gracia would never fit in an acknowledgments note. I am also in debt to the following books: Hasta la libertad, by Juan José Moreno Cuenca; Historia del Julián, by Juan F. Gamella; Els castellans, by Jordi Puntí; Quinquis dels 80: Cinema, prensa i carrer, by various authors; and Memòries del barri xino, an unpublished manuscript by Gerard Bagué. I’d also like to thank Joan Boada, Josep Anton Bofill, Antoni Candela, Emili Caula, Jordi Caula and Narcís Caula, Jordi Corominas, Mery Cuesta, Daniel de Antonio, Tomás Frauca (not Franca), Pepe Guerrero, Ramón Llorente, Llorenç Martí, Puri Mena, Mariana Montoya, Isabel Salamanya, Carlos Sobrino, Robert Soteras, Guillem Terribas and Fernando Velasco.