Cover: Francisco de Goya, Saturno devorando a su hijo, 1819–23. Museo del Prado, Madrid.
Avery Venn
The Last Cannibal of Lisbon
Everyone has a story they tell themselves.
Finn Corrigan has spent twenty-five years eating people. He takes their secrets, their careers and their wives, and makes a fortune from what he takes. He has never laid a hand on anyone, and never broken a law that anyone can prove.
Over one London winter, the people he has fed on begin to converge on him: a former City lawyer who now works in a church crypt, a ruined trader in an old mohair greatcoat, a regulator who has never let herself ask why he keeps coming back, a hedge-fund wife who is next on his plate. Every one of them also feeds on someone else.
From Mayfair to a small restaurant in Cais do Sodré, The Last Cannibal of Lisbon asks who is left standing once everyone has eaten everyone.
They forget there's someone on the other side of the trade.