Los días de mercurio

In a provincial town during the Spanish postwar period, a waiter with a dark past decides to blackmail the local Falange boss. What he does not imagine is what this extortion will cause in a place where everyone suspects everyone and where betrayal and revenge are the order of the day. Violence and fatality go hand in hand in The Days of Mercury, in which Alexis Ravelo returns to show us the worst of human beings in a hard, fast and uncomfortable novel that pays homage to classic authors of the noir genre such as James M. Cain and Jim Thompson.