On the night shift at the Huesca police station, Andrés learns of the death of an old friend he has not seen for twenty years, but who for some reason has travelled from the Barcelona coast to tell him something. With the help of Diana, a young police trainee, the veteran police officer sets out on an investigation that will force him to go back to his childhood to find out what has reunited them after so long.
Ths novel La noche de los peones (Night of the Pawns) was runner up for the 69th edition of the prestigious Premio Nadal in Spain, January 2013.
Esteban Navarro Soriano (Moratalla, Murcia, March 18, 1965) is a Spanish writer of noir and police novels. He was a National Police officer from 1994 to 2018. "El reactor de Bering" won the Katharsis Short Novel Prize in 2008. The novel "La casa de enfrente" is considered the paradigm of digital publication. "El buen padre" won the Saramago La Balsa de Piedra Prize in 2011. "La noche de los peones" was one of the six finalists selected for the Nadal Prize in 2013. "La cuarta memoria" was awarded by the Lloret Negre Festival as the best noir novel published in 2022. Random House considered him at the time as one of the great names in contemporary noir fiction after publishing "Los crímenes del abecedario." Since 2012, he has been regarded as the writer who coined the term "Kindle Generation." He has been an Amazon Author since June 16, 2011.