Javier Falcon Themes

The Javier Falcon series is a set of detective thriller novels by prolific British crime writer Robert Wilson. The explosive series of novels is composed of 4 books, published between 2003 and 2009. The main character in all the four novels is a very interesting character Detective Inspector Javier Falcon. Falcon is introduced as a typically cool and dispassionate homicide detective based in Seville Spain. While he is primarily a homicide detective, his work often finds him dealing with more far reaching criminal happenings such as unexplained building collapses, terrorist bombings and political conspiracies. As the Inspector is involved in his routine investigations of murders in his hometown of Seville, he also has to deal with his own demons. While dealing with such heavy psychological stresses would have broken any other man, they seem to strengthen Inspector Javier Falcon’s resolve to fight the Russian Mafia, Islamic terrorism and political
A leading restaurateur is found dead in his house, gagged, and bound in front of his TV during the Semanta Santa, the Holy Week in Seville, a time of Easter processions and passion. Forced to watch unendurable images the dead man apparently killed himself to get away from it all. While a normally unflustered and cool detective in the face of the most ghastly of homicides, the scene before Falcon makes him recoil in fear. What could be so terrible as to make a man inflict such horrible wounds on himself? His investigations soon have him digging through his own sordid past and the tell-all journal ramblings of his late father. The dead man’s past and the revelations in his father’s journals muddle up Falcon’s memory even further even as more killings now lead him towards a terrifying revelation. He soon acknowledges that the investigation is not only about finding justice for a seemingly omniscient killer but also a search for his own