Breaking Lorca

by Giles Blunt

Victor Pena, a bookish young soldier, is saved from a death sentence by his overbearing uncle, who puts him to work in a clandestine torture unit. Now Victor must consider his impending role in the fate of an unidentified young woman who is suspected of supporting the guerrillas. Before they learn so much as her name- Lorca- the squad relentlessly break her, body and soul. Victor is moved by Lorca's courage but is too terrified to help her, until a twist of fate gives him a chance at a very different life-if only he is brave enough to take it.

Giles Blunt grew up in North Bay, Ontario. After spending over twenty years in New York City, he now lives in Toronto. Among other works, he is the author of the John Cardinal crime series, winning the British Crime Writers’ Macallan Silver Dagger for Forty Words for Sorrow, the debut novel in that series. The Delicate Storm won the Arthur Ellis Award for Best Novel and Blackfly Season was one of Margaret Cannon’s Best Mysteries of the Year. The fourth Cardinal, By the Time You Read This, became a national bestseller. His standalone crime novel, No Such Creature, was also picked as one of the Globe and Mail's Top Ten Crime Books.