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The law of retaliation

is one that imposes a punishment identical to the crime committed, that of the biblical "eye for an eye, tooth for a tooth". If you kill they kill you, if you break a bone they break it, "if a free man emptied the eye of a son of another free man, his eye would be emptied in return." In today's society it sounds like barbarism, but revenge, the feeling on which this law is based, is universal, current and human.

So much so that it is the common thread of one of the latest successes of the American crime novel. Its author is

, a pseudonym under which

hides

a North American lawyer and investor with Cuban and Spanish roots who, in addition, is married to

daughter of businessman

kidnapped and murdered by the terrorist gang

. Both attend

during the promotion of Raúl's book

, the first to be published in Spain in a trilogy that has hooked the United States.

"The concept behind the novel is what accumulation of circumstances would have to happen for a couple, who in theory is normal, to come up with a murder. Throughout the novel we learn that they seem like a normal couple, but both have secrets in their past that motivate them, for different reasons, to think about revenge ", explains Raúl, who hopes that this first novel (and later the trilogy) will have the same repercussion in

as in the United States.

"I think the theme is something universal, the crime novel is a growing genre, it comes out at a time near Christmas ...".

Cover of the novel.

And speaking with the

couple

revenge, it is inevitable to think of the family drama of Raquel, who suffered the kidnapping and murder of her father 26 years ago at the hands of GRAPO. An event that kept Spain in suspense and with which the question inevitably arises ... would such a traumatic situation lead us to take justice into our own hands?

Raquel

responds.

"What happens is that you realize that it would transform you as a person to make such a brutal decision. By performing such extreme acts, I at least, I do not see myself assuming that responsibility for revenge itself. I could not live. Look at how tremendously it has happened to us and I don't know. You live together, you suffer it, you put up with it, you spend it, life goes on, you keep fighting, you keep moving forward. You always have that residue, but you cannot make another decision that is not to believe in justice. They have been brought to trial, they have been condemned. You just keep that, "says Raquel.

Returning to the novel, another of the themes that crosses the trilogy is the general disaffection by an

As such a guarantor, he lets alleged guilty parties escape through the cracks due to lack of evidence under the concept of "not guilty", which is not equivalent to innocent. Raúl, a lawyer by profession, explains: "We are aware of having a structure to be able to live and coexist in society. When someone does not comply with the law, the system in theory has to solve it, but since it is a system made by humans and operated by Humans are always going to have failures. " In this regard, Raquel adds: "They are legal systems, they work or they don't work and sometimes they are wrong. The novel begins a bit because of that, because of the people who take justice into their own hands and to what extent would you take it as a person and as an individual. And what does it mean to take revenge on your own.

. "

And to talk about the background of the novel's arrival in Spain, we have to go back to talking about the Cordón family.

And it is that Pilar Muro, mother of Raquel, is the main person in charge of that Eye for an eye is in the Spanish bookstores.

Pilar, "a great reader", wanted to read her son-in-law's novel, but she couldn't do it in English.

With the collaboration of a family friend, they translated it and the mother-in-law was enthusiastic about Raúl's work.

So much so that it encouraged them to submit it to a Spanish publisher for publication.

And then

appeared

.

"The truth is that it was thanks to her, because it hadn't even occurred to us ...", Raquel thanks her mother.

YOUR LIFE IN THE UNITED STATES

The boom of Raúl's novels in the United States broke the peaceful life they both led in

first and then in

. He continues to practice as a corporate lawyer and investor and insists on saying that writing "is a hobby", although he already has in mind the project of two novels, one in English and the other in Spanish. Raquel, also a lawyer, reduced her presence in the offices with the birth of her three children, but found time to dedicate herself to an artistic passion that she shares with her mother, painting. "I studied Fine Arts and I realized that I was good at it. I am good at it. And in the

A quiet family life that may end up imploding if the marriage's latest business project materializes: the adaptation of the trilogy into a television series.

"This is going to take a long time, but it is an opportunity that has come our way and I hope it will come out. They still have to answer us ...", says Raquel.

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