Your Face Tomorrow: v. 2 Dance and Dream

"Dance and Dream"--the dazzling second volume of "Your Face Tomorrow," Javier Marias' unfolding literary spy novel in three parts.
"Your Face Tomorrow" has been hailed "exquisite" ("Publishers Weekly"), "gorgeous" ("Kirkus"), and "outstanding: another work of urgent originality" ("London Independent"). And now, "Dance and Dream" takes Javier Marias's daring experiential magnum opus out for a new wild ride. Skillfully constructed around a central mesmerizing scene in a nightclub, a scene of real and perplexing horror, "Dance and Dream" again features our hero Jacques Deza. But in Volume Two Deza--hired by MI6 as a person of extraordinarily sophisticated powers of perception--discovers the dark side of his new employers. In a disco, Tupra, his spymaster boss, brings out a sword and uses it in a way that appalls Deza, who remonstrates: "You can't just go around hurting and killing people like that."
"Why not?" asks Tupra.