The Blind Man of Seville

The Silent and the Damned

Robert Wilson

At seven years old, Mario Vega faces a terrible tragedy — his parents are dead in an apparent suicide pact.

But Inspector Javier Falcón has his doubts. In the brutal heat of a Seville summer, he dissects the disturbing life of the boy’s father, Rafael Vega. His investigation draws threats from the Russian mafia whose corruption reaches deep into the city. He questions a creative American couple with a destructive past and uncovers the misery of a famous actor whose only son is in prison for an appalling crime.

More suicides follow and one of them is a senior policeman. As a forest fire rages through the hills above the city Falcón must sweat out the truth that connects it all — and find the final secret in the dark heart of Vega’s life.

‘Robert Wilson’s plotting is intricate, his detective endearingly human, Seville a captivating venue. This is crime fiction of high order’

MARCEL BERLINS, The Times

‘First rate … a taut, gripping narrative and a sensitive study of the tormented detective’

Sunday Telegraph

ISBN 13: 978 0 00 711785 7