About the book
Journalist Alejandro López publishes his first novel, “Ajuste de Cuentas”, a political thriller about the sewers of city halls
The book, published by the Valencian publishing house Loto Azul, is a novel that investigates the municipal scene of a fictional city and denounces institutional patronage and corruption.
Ajuste de Cuentas is the second book by Alejandro López Menacho (Jerez, 1982), a long-time journalist who has captured his experience as a press chief in local politics in Jerez in a fictional novel that narrates the economic ins and outs of a town hall that could be any other.
The author from Jerez explained that “it is a unique novel because it can only be told in this way by someone who has been involved in local politics, someone who knows the backstage of the parties. And I was behind a similar scene to the novel as the press chief of a municipal political party,” adding that “the idea of the novel is to tell what happens in politics behind the podiums but that nobody sees, the invisible part of the voting in the town halls.”
Ajuste de Cuentas is an absorbing and mysterious thriller narrated in a choral manner by different characters of different political persuasions. A dark and realistic portrait of institutional clientelism, corruption and the sewers of local politics.
“The moral of the work is that town councils must be honest, transparent and radically democratic, but there are many more messages hovering in this novel, which has the soul of a suspense story,” López Menacho stresses, and concludes: “You can count on the fingers of one hand the purely political novels, that is, those that talk about the parties and their ideologies, that there are in Spain. This is one of them.”
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Source: https://algunoslibrosbuenos.com/ajuste-de-cuentas
