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    Harry Dickson and the Atom Destroyer
    Harry Dickson and the Atom Destroyer
    Harry Dickson and the Atom Destroyer
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    Harry Dickson and the Atom Destroyer

    By José Caballero

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    ATOM DESTROYER is a tribute by José Caballero to the Belgian writer Jean Ray and to the brilliant detective of his adolescence, Harry Dickson. On this occasion our famous detectives will have to face a threat that, from the quiet English countryside, is capable of posing a danger, not only for stability, but for the very existence of the planet. The one in charge of neutralizing this danger will be, once again, the incomparable

    Harry Dickson

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherJosé Caballero
    Release dateMay 9, 2020
    ISBN9781393922001
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      Harry Dickson and the Atom Destroyer - José Caballero

      Harry Dickson and the Atom Destroyer

      José Caballero

      Published by José Caballero, 2020.

      This is a work of fiction. Similarities to real people, places, or events are entirely coincidental.

      HARRY DICKSON AND THE ATOM DESTROYER

      First edition. May 9, 2020.

      Copyright © 2020 José Caballero.

      Written by José Caballero.

      ATOM DESTROYER

      José Caballero Albertos

      Copyright © 2020 José Caballero Albertos

      All rights reserved.

      Dedicated to Auxi, my friend, to my cousin Gonzalo, and to my aunt Amparo, at whose home I found Harry Dickson

      When I was about ten years old I discovered the stories of Harry Dickson in a small town in the province of Cádiz. I was spending a few days in a house in Chipiona where my uncle and aunt used to spend their summer. Back then I always liked having a book at hand, but for some reason at that time I didn't have one. Nosing around the bookshelf of my now sadly departed Aunt Amparo, I found two small books published by the famous publishing house Jucar, amongst the few ones she had; normally summer holiday houses of the seventies didn’t contain much of anything. The titles were The House of the Great Peril and The Dreadful Night of the Zoo This fascinating discovery was more important in my life than I would be willing to admit today. Those stories were riddled with criminals, violence, sordid environments and a host of elements that, mixed with the fine irony of the leading detective, could delight any teenager of the time. The setting was romantic and these detectives were not shy. They were true executors who took justice into their own hands.

          After reading those books, I searched the rest of the sixty-five titles of Júcar for twenty years in bookstores, stationeries, hypermarkets, street markets and even private houses. A few days before my wedding, I went to buy something at a stationery store in a neighborhood in Jerez de la Frontera and, surprise, a rotating display with almost the entire collection. A neighbor in need of money had asked the owner of the stationery store to try to sell it. I took the three titles that I needed and thought I had finally closed the circle. A little later, the Internet revealed to me that there were actually 178 stories, and not just the 65 as I had always believed.

          Since those distant days in Chipiona a long time has passed, and I have read many books and even published some. The great world of literature with its Mann, Cervantes, Hesse, Goethe, Unamuno, Borges and an almost endless list of authors opened before me. At the same time, I have continued to reread the adventures of Harry Dickson with delight. Why? In all honesty I affirm that I do not know. What can prompt me to read, for example, The Street of the Lost Head, Dickson's adventure, moments after having read The Magic Mountain by Thomas Mann? Perhaps the answer is that Mr. Dickson's adventures have something indefinable, something that can give us back part of our youth and innocence.

          I enjoyed helping to close the circle, translating from French four adventures of Harry Dickson written in the thirties by Jean Ray for the publishing house La Biblioteca del Laberinto. In them I respected the original text in all its details, making only a slight change for a better understanding. After that I thought it was better to try writing my own stories. 

      JOSE CABALLERO ALBERTOS

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