The Devil Aspect: A Novel
Written by Craig Russell
Narrated by Julian Rhind-Tutt
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Prague, 1935: Viktor Kosárek, a psychiatrist newly trained by Carl Jung, arrives at the infamous Hrad Orlu Asylum for the Criminally Insane. The state-of-the-art facility is located in a medieval mountaintop castle outside of Prague, though the site is infamous for concealing dark secrets going back many generations.
The asylum houses the country's six most treacherous killers—known to the staff as The Woodcutter, The Clown, The Glass Collector, The Vegetarian, The Sciomancer, and The Demon—and Viktor hopes to use a new medical technique to prove that these patients share a common archetype of evil, a phenomenon known as The Devil Aspect. As he begins to learn the stunning secrets of these patients, five men and one woman, Viktor must face the disturbing possibility that these six may share another dark truth.
Meanwhile, in Prague, fear grips the city as a phantom serial killer emerges in the dark alleys. Police investigator Lukas Smolak, desperate to locate the culprit (dubbed Leather Apron in the newspapers), realizes that the killer is imitating the most notorious serial killer from a century earlier—London's Jack the Ripper. Smolak turns to the doctors at Hrad Orlu for their expertise with the psychotic criminal mind, though he worries that Leather Apron might have some connection to the six inmates in the asylum.
Steeped in the folklore of Eastern Europe, and set in the shadow of Nazi darkness erupting just beyond the Czech border, this stylishly written, tightly coiled, richly imagined novel is propulsively entertaining, and impossible to put down.
Craig Russell
Craig Russell nació en Fife, Escocia, y ha trabajado como agente de policía, corrector de textos en una agencia de publicidad y director creativo. Es autor de la exitosa serie que protagoniza Jan Fabel, ambientada en Hamburgo y de la que Roca Editorial ha publicado cinco novelas: Muerte en Hamburgo, Cuento de muerte, Resurrección, El señor del Carnaval y La venganza de la valquiria. En 2007, se le concedió el prestigioso premio Polizeistern (Estrella de la policía) que concede la Policía de Hamburgo y ha sido el único autor extranjero en recibir este galardón. El año 2008 ganó el CWA Dagger in the Library por su serie Fabel y, en 2015, el McIlvanney Prize por The Ghosts of Altona. También ha sido finalista, entre otros premios, del CWA Duncan Lawrie Golden Dagger, la más importante distinción del mundo para escritores de serie negra, así como el SNCF Prix Polar en Francia. Russell es también el autor de la serie negra protagonizada por el detective Lennox. Su obra se ha traducido a veinticinco idiomas y ha sido adaptada a la pantalla en varias ocasiones. El aspecto del diablo, fue seleccionada para el Wilbur Smith Adventure Writing Prize de 2019. Su última novela Hyde, fue publicada en este sello editorial en septiembre de 2021.
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