Alessandro Gallenzi

Jim Talbot es un escritor con una docena de novelas que han sido rechazadas por casi todos los agentes y editores de la ciudad y cuya única obsesión es publicar un bestseller. Charles Randall es el viejo y excéntrico director editorial de Tetragon Press, una pe­queña pero prestigiosa editorial independiente que ha luchado durante treinta años por sobrevivir entre las grandes multinacionales de la edición. A través de estas dos historias asistimos a las intrigas del mundo editorial, a sus mentiras y ambiciones. Y las vemos desde los dos lados del espejo, por una parte, la obsesión de algunos escritores por la fama y el éxito y por otra, la carrera desesperada de las editoriales por encontrar una historia, sea la que sea, que se convierta en bestseller. Se ha dicho que ésta es una novela de intriga, engaño y de absoluta desesperación y un retrato cáustico de la obsesión por la fama y el éxito.

Born out of the author's own experiences as a young InterRail traveller, this modern picaresque novel is a celebration of a Europe without boundaries, the joy of being young and the infinite, unpredictable paths we can go down during our lives.

Jim Talbot, a writer with a dozen unpublished novels under his belt, has been roundly rejected by virtually every agent and publisher in the land, and is willing to go to extreme lengths to make his dream of literary stardom come true. Charles Randall, the eccentric founder and managing director of Tetragon Press, a small independent publisher that has managed to survive for thirty years in a fierce publishing environment dominated by corporate juggernauts, is about to be brutally sacked by a newly appointed business consultant. In the cut-throat world of modern publishing, Charles and Jim's paths towards literary salvation are fraught with the most unpredictable dangers.

Amman, Jordan. As an ambitious digitization project gathers pace in a vast building outside Amman, some unpublished writings by Giordano Bruno flawed genius of the late Renaissance, renegade philosopher, occultist with a prodigious memory disappear together with the Jesuit priest sent by the Vatican to study them.When the priest is found dead and a series of mysterious threats ensues, it becomes clear that the stakes are high for all the parties openly or covertly involved. What dangerous ideas were contained in the stolen manuscripts? What was the ultimate secret that Bruno tried to hide from the Holy Inquisition, even as he was persecuted, imprisoned, tortured and finally burnt alive in Rome?In this riveting, meticulously researched new novel, Alessandro Gallenzi draws on his experience as a publisher in the digital era and casts a light on the darker side of our modern technological world, while revealing how a well-kept secret can change the course of history for ever.