Breaking Lorca

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Random House of Canada, Feb 23, 2010 - Fiction - 272 pages
A master crime writer trains every weapon in his arsenal on a crime against humanity.

In 1980s El Salvador, a young woman is detained in a government torture squad’s head-quarters, suspected of supporting guerilla forces. There, a bookish new recruit, Victor Peña, is assigned to assist in her interrogation. Before they learn so much as her name—Lorca—the squad relentlessly break her, body and soul. It is a terrifying journey into human cruelty and courage, one which years later—in the pinnacle of cosmopolitan America—still haunts the tormentor as dramatically as it does his victim.
 

Contents

Section 1
3
Section 2
9
Section 3
16
Section 4
30
Section 5
42
Section 6
50
Section 7
58
Section 8
66
Section 17
151
Section 18
158
Section 19
172
Section 20
175
Section 21
182
Section 22
196
Section 23
204
Section 24
213

Section 9
74
Section 10
83
Section 11
91
Section 12
102
Section 13
109
Section 14
117
Section 15
129
Section 16
144
Section 25
223
Section 26
230
Section 27
235
Section 28
239
Section 29
244
Section 30
249
Section 31
261
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GILES BLUNT grew up in North Bay, Ontario, and spent twenty years in New York City as a novelist and a scriptwriter for such shows as Law and Order, Street Legal and Night Heat, before making his home in Toronto. He is the author of the  bestselling Cardinal crime series, featuring Algonquin Bay's John Cardinal and Lise Delorme, which has been made into a TV series for CTV. He is widely considered "one of Canada's top crime novelists" (The Globe and Mail) and among "crime drama's elite" (Publishers Weekly). He is a two-time winner of the Arthur Ellis Award for Best Novel and a recipient of the British Crime Writers' Macallan Silver Dagger.

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