Pere Cervantes (Barcelona 1971, when life was indeed a noir novel). Diagnosed by those who know him well as a nostalgic sort, stubborn by vocation and a dreamer, he has spent almost twenty-five years pounding the streets of this country with a badge in his pocket, a pistol at his waist and a recording eye which he uses, first hand, to create his novels. He is what is known in police argot as a member of 'la pringue', the Crime Squad. He is given to saying that he took the wrong university course since, in those days, storytelling degrees didn't exist, and that his experience of three years in the Balkans as a UN peace observer taught him that hostility, regardless of ethnicity or creed, can be tempered by reading. He is the author of Trescientos sesenta y seis lunes (Three Hundred and Sixty-six Mondays), La soledad de las ballenas (The Loneliness of Whales), Tranki pap@s and Rompeolas (Breakwater).