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In 1982, when he was just three years old, Samir was abandoned by his mother on the beach of El Saler. She blindfolded him and said: Don't move, I'll come right away. But she never did. No one knew why she did not return and that child ended up in a juvenile center with no other identity than his name and a handful of memories. Samir grew up among orphans and disinherited from the world, but with the determination to have a chance in life. Thirty years after his mother left him on that beach, Samir is no longer a helpless child, but a captain of the Valencia Judicial Police. However, his past ...

¡¡¡Cinco historias de terror extremo!!! Este es un libro profundamente humano (pero nadie garantiza que sea profunda humanidad no sea acaso la entrada a la zona que anida nuestros impulsos más oscuros y cavernarios). En las cinco novelas breves y rigurosamente inéditas que encierra Machetazos, el lector encontrará algo mucho peor que zombies, fantasmas, vampiros, extraterrestres y robots deschavetados. Verá su propio reflejo cuando las cosas se salen de control.

Tras la muerte de César, Cleopatra vuelve a Egipto, donde acabará reponiéndose de la pérdida de su amado. La majestuosa reina del Nilo alcanza su madurez humana y política: disfruta de una apasionada relación con Marco Antonio, uno de los hombres más poderosos del momento y, bajo su mandato, Egipto goza de una envidiable prosperidad. Cleopatra cuenta con la ayuda de Marco Antonio para alcanzar aún mayores glorias, pero el camino es arduo y Octavio se anuncia ya como una clara amenaza. En este segundo y penúltimo volumen de «Memorias de Cleopatra», Margaret George nos ofrece la...