Having worked as a court and police reporter for over thirty years, Carlos Quiles presents 18 crime stories which especially marked him in his professional career. A choral book that includes some stories written by the prisoners themselves, ranging from those convicted of common crimes, rape or murder, such as Rosa Peral, to police officers of other times or high-ranking officials such as Sandro Rosell.

Damn Stories (Another Bad Life) This is a collection of crime stories that Carlos Quiles knew first hand after more than thirty years as a chronicler of police and judicial information. He knew them and sometimes tolerated them. It is only this intimacy with the criminal, the police, the judge and the victim that allows us to construct this “selfless but extremely revealing story about the weaknesses of our society.”

Kiles, after over thirty years of “bad life” journalismoffers as glimpses of reality these stories about guys who one day decided to begin the path of no return, gun in hand, to nowhere.

The stories that the author presents in this “true crime” book are accompanied by other stories written in the handwriting of prisoners and convicts who, “candidly and completely naked” explain their views on life, freedom, prison and extraordinary pain. they caused their victims. Sandro Rosell (two years of pre-trial detention is unfair), Pear Rose (sentenced to twenty-five years in prison for crimes committed by the city police), Jesus Contreras (known as the tracksuit burglar), Flaco (Robin Hood from Vallecas), Immanuel (chapter Mara Salvatrucha), Killer cat (a member of an endangered criminal race), as well as other criminals and cops who were kind enough to strip away some of their most cherished memories to write their stories, dripping with emotion, rawness and viscerality. Of particular note is the chapter on the tragic and pantomime trial of the anarchist activist Salvador Puig Antic. “Stories of the Convicts” is a punch of reality in the gut and a very close-up photograph of “our society, such an accomplice and victim of its own failures.”

Carlos Quiles Lázaro (Barcelona, ​​1966) holds a degree in journalism from the Autonomous University of Barcelona and a master’s degree in forensic journalism from the Autonomous University of Madrid. After twenty years at the head of the courts and police department of Cadena SER in Barcelona, ​​Carlos Quiles found himself at the Catalan Anti-Fraud Office as Director of Analysis. After spending time in this institution, he returned to journalism with Crónica Global, Sexta TV, Rac 1 and TV3. In 2019, he founded the digital newspaper Eltaquígrafo.com, specializing in event journalism. Since 2022, he has been overseeing the events section of the “And Now Sonsoles” program on Antena 3.

Kiles was professor of investigative journalism at the university Pompeu Fabra, also at the International University of Catalonia and the author of a dozen true crime books. It won the Rodolfo Walsh Prize at Gijon’s Black Week and the Crims de Tinta Prize for crime novels from the Generalitat of Catalonia.