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Your Face Tomorrow 1 by Javier Marias (Hardcover, 2005)

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Your Face Tomorrow 1, Marias, Javier, Very Good Condition Book. Width : 14 cmHeight : 3 cmLength : 22.5 cmAuthor : Marias, Javier. Title: Your Face Tomorrow 1. Publication Date : 2005-05-05. EAN : 9780701176754.

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In his first major work since A Heart So White (winner of the 1997 IMPAC award), Javier Mar-as embarks on a remarkable 'novel in parts', set in the murky world of surveillance and espionage. Fever and Spear is the first volume. In it Mar-as begins to weave a web of intrigue, both narrative and intellectual, that will entice the reader to follow him into the labyrinth of the novel's future books. Recently divorced, Jacques Deza moves from Madrid to London in order to distance himself from his ex-wife and children. here he picks up old friendships from his Oxford University days, and it is at an Oxford party that he is approached by the enigmatic Bernard Tupra. Tupra believes that Jacques has a talent- he is one of those people who sees more clearly than others. His services would be of use to a mysterious group whose aims are unstated but whose day-to-day activities involve the careful observation of people's character and the prediction of their future behaviour. he 'group' is not part of MI5, Jacques will find no reference to it in any book; he will be called up to report on all types of people from politicians and celebrities, to ordinary citizens applying for bank loans. As