Poison, Shadow and Farewellis the concluding part in Javier Marías spy trilogy masterwork,Your Face Tomorrow.

Jacques Deza is back in London and once again working for the secret intelligence agency run by Bernard Tupra. Deza finds himself forced to watch Tupra's collection of incriminating videotapes of important public figures. The recordings document unconventional private lives - and horrific acts. The scenes enter him like a poison, contaminating everything good, yet he is powerless to counteract them.

Set against a background of brutality,Poison, Shadow and Farewellasks whether violence can ever be justified and completes the extraordinary journey that has led us on a descent into hell and a re-emergence, not entirely unscathed, into life.

Javier Marías was born in 1951. He has published twelve novels, two collections of stories and a number of essay collections, winning a dazzling array of international literary awards. His work has been translated into 37 languages in 47 countries and more than six million copies of his books have been sold worldwide. He has held academic posts in Spain, the United States and in Britain, as Lecturer in Spanish Literature at Oxford University, and has recently been nominated a member of the Real Academia de la Lengua Española. He lives in Madrid.

The concluding part to Marías' masterwork: 'This trilogy must be one of the greatest novels of our age' (Antony Beevor).