What a beat in Ciutat Vella, Barcelona’s old town, looks like from inside the uniform: anything from a tourist flirting with the badge to a terrorist attack, and everything in between. Told in the first person by Jesús Bordas Luque.
The book was ready for the printer in August 2017 when the attack of the 17th happened. He shelved it, wrote down what he had lived that day, and rebuilt the book around that chapter. It came out five years later, in Catalan, as Hèrnies de Ciutat Vella (2022); the Spanish translation, Hernias de Ciutat Vella, followed in 2023.
Amazon files the editions under a “Policia de Barcelona” series, but every number in it is this same book, so no saga here.