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Giles Blunt: Breaking Lorca (CAN 2010) From the Publisher: In 1980s El Salvador, a young woman is detained in a government torture squad's head-quarters, suspected of supporting guerilla forces. There, a bookish new recruit, Victor Peña, is assigned to assist in her interrogation. Before they learn so much as her name - Lorca - the squad relentlessly break her, body and soul. It is a terrifying journey into human cruelty and courage, one which years later - in the pinnacle of cosmopolitan America - still haunts the tormentor as dramatically as it does his victim. Giles Blunt: Breaking Lorca. Vintage Canada, ISBN: 9780307357014 (February, 2010), 272 p., C$19.95.
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Giles Blunt: Breaking Lorca (CAN 2009) From the Publisher: In 1980s El Salvador, a young woman is detained in a government torture squad's head-quarters, suspected of supporting guerilla forces. There, a bookish new recruit, Victor Peña, is assigned to assist in her interrogation. Before they learn so much as her name - Lorca - the squad relentlessly break her, body and soul. It is a terrifying journey into human cruelty and courage, one which years later - in the pinnacle of cosmopolitan America - still haunts the tormentor as dramatically as it does his victim. Giles Blunt: Breaking Lorca. Random House Canada, ISBN: 9780307357007 (February, 2009), 256 p., C$29.95.
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