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Ejército enemigo
Solidarity, the art of advertising and new technologies derived from the internet are the battlefield for "Enemy Army", a novel that is almost obscenely up to date.
Santiago is an advertising executive in decline. He lives in a down at heel neighbourhood and regards the social movements his upper class friends are involved in with cynicism. When one of them dies, the inheritance he receives from him - a simple envelope in his name - leads Santiago to discover the truth about his dead friend's life, in which activism took a risky route with no going back.
"Enemy Army" tackles some of the great questions of our time: the insignificance of political debate, the confusion between social action and media repercussions, the disappearance of a clear enemy, all delivered in rousing prose and with a determined exploration of social ills.