Your Face Tomorrow: Fever and Spear (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780811217279)

Part spy novel, part romance, part Henry James, Your Face Tomorrow is a wholly remarkable display of the immense gifts of Javier Marias. With Fever and Spear, Volume One of his unfolding novel Your Face Tomorrow, he returns us to the rarified world of Oxford (the delightful setting of All Souls and Dark Back of Time), while introducing us to territory entirely new--espionage.

Our hero, Jaime Deza, separated from his wife in Madrid, is a bit adrift in London until his old friend Sir Peter Wheeler--retired Oxford don and semi-retired master spy--recruits him for a new career in British Intelligence. Deza possesses a rare gift for seeing behind the masks people wear. He is soon observing interviews conducted by Her Majesty's secret service: variously shady international businessmen one day, would-be coup leaders the next. Seductively, this metaphysical thriller explores past, present, and future in the ever-more-perilous 21st century. This compelling and enigmatic tour de force from one of Europe's greatest writers continues with Volume Two, Dance and Dream.

Author: Javier Mar?s
ISBN-10: 0811217272
ISBN-13: 9780811217279
Publisher: New Directions Publishing Corporation
Language: English
Published: 09/01/2007
Pages: 400
Format: Paperback
Weight: 1.01lbs
Size: 8.02h x 6.37w x 1.17d

Review Citation(s):
New York Review of Books 01/17/2008 pg. 36