Those of us who follow Sergio Olguin through his books – especially if we are journalists – we always want to know how he is Veronica Rosenthal. “I just left Verónica in the living room of her father’s house chatting with a lover; “She was there before I came here,” she says, at the bar table. Cortazar, in Almagro, this writer who invented the police saga that has that journalist as its heroine.
But, this time, the main female protagonist of her latest book is not Verónica, but Leyla. This is one of the most captivating characters in the world.he new novel by Sergio Olguín, The last days of Jules Verne, edited by V&R Editoras. “V and R, the initials of Verónica Rosenthal; Pure coincidence,” says Olguín and laughs.
If we had to summarize the story of his latest book, we would say that it takes place in Paris, between the end of the 19th century and the beginning of the 20th century. Michel Verne, Jules’s son, receives from his father, the renowned writer of books such as Around the world in eighty days, the request that, in exchange for money, a corpse be disposed of. Together with his friends El Lobo and Gandolfo, and his partner Leyla, the most daring of the group, they face this task. Everything gets complicated and they begin a drift that puts their own lives at risk. There are 400 pages of a combination of suspense, police, adventure and eroticism.
