La Hipótesis Más Peligrosa / The Most Dangerous Hypothesis

Hay un principio b嫳ico muy il en el mar y en la guerra: prepararlo todo seg la hip鏒esis m嫳 probable, pero adoptar las medidas de seguridad seg la hip鏒esis m嫳 peligrosa.

Cal Gadea, un chico de diecis嶯s a隳s criado por sus abuelos y fascinado por los videojuegos, encuentra al hombre al que lleva tiempo buscando: Asier Lerrant, el padre que nunca conoci? Lo ha localizado en un puerto del Mediterr嫕eo siguiendo unas vagas pistas y una fotograf燰 antigua, movido por una pregunta que lo atormenta desde ni隳: por qu?ese hombre abandon?a su madre y lo dej?tambi幯 a 幨 fuera de su historia.

A bordo de un velero que trafica con arte robado, padre e hijo emprenden un viaje en el que la bqueda 璯tima de Cal se cruza con un enigma hist鏎ico y una trama de car塶ter polic燰co. Lerrant, hombre herm彋ico, 嫳pero y dif獳il de descifrar, ense鎙r?al chico a navegar, a anticiparse al peligro y a comprender que, en un barco como en la vida, ciertas reglas son una forma de supervivencia.

Novela de aventura e iniciaci鏮, La hip鏒esis m嫳 peligrosa es tambi幯 una asombrosa mirada sobre el Mediterr嫕eo como memoria viva de la Historia: un mar donde todav燰 resuena el eco de batallas, exilios, piratas, imperios desaparecidos, leyendas, dioses antiguos, libros cl嫳icos y derrotas humanas.

ENGLISH DESCRIPTION

THERE ARE STORIES WE'RE TOLD. STORIES WE BELIEVE. STORIES WE DON'T BELIEVE. AND STORIES WE WISH WEREN'T TRUE. A COMING-OF-AGE ADVENTURE NOVEL.

There is one basic principle that proves invaluable at sea and in war: prepare for the most likely scenario, but take precautions for the most dangerous one.

Sixteen-year-old Cal Gadea, raised by his grandparents and obsessed with video games, finally tracks down the man he has spent years searching for: Asier Lerrant, the father he never knew. Following little more than a faded photograph and a handful of vague clues, Cal finds him in a Mediterranean port, driven by the question that has haunted him since childhood: Why did this man abandon his mother--and leave him out of his own story?

Aboard a sailboat involved in the trafficking of stolen art, father and son embark on a journey where Cal's deeply personal search becomes entangled with a historical mystery and a gripping crime plot. Lerrant--a guarded, abrasive man who is difficult to read--teaches the boy how to sail, how to anticipate danger, and how to understand that, on a boat as in life, certain rules are essential for survival.

An adventure and coming-of-age novel, The Most Dangerous Hypothesis is also a captivating portrait of the Mediterranean as a living repository of history--a sea where the echoes of battles, exile, pirates, vanished empires, ancient gods, legendary tales, classical literature, and human tragedies still linger.