Jason Wade Webster

Jas Webster

Jason Richmond Webster (born September 8, 1977) is a former American football cornerback. He played college football at Texas A&M and was drafted by the...

Jas Webster (author)

Jason Webster is an Anglo-American crime novelist, travel writer and critic, the main focus of whose work is devoted to Spain. He was born in California in 1970.

Duende: A Journey into the Heart of Flamenco

Duende: A Journey into the Heart of Flamenco

The Anarchist Detective: (Max Cámara 3)

Sent on leave after his last, brutal, case, Max Cámara returns to his home town in La Mancha, famous for producing the finest saffron in the world. There, the past keeps pulling at him. The town is exhuming a mass grave from the Civil War, but why is his grandfather behaving so strangely? His old fr...

A Body in Barcelona (Max Cámara)

Tensions in Spain are rising: political violence and social unrest have re-emerged. In Catalonia, the call for independence is getting louder. The last time Barcelona moved to break away, in the 1930s, Spain descended into civil war. A shallow grave is found among abandoned orange groves outside Val...

Blood Med: (Max Cámara 4)

Spain is corrupt and on the brink of collapse.The king is ill, banks are closing, hospitals are in chaos, homes are lost, demonstrators riot and rightwing thugs patrol the street. The tunnels beneath the streets are at once a refuge and a source of anger. And as the blood flows Cámara roars in on hi...

Spanish Ways: Explorations of an enchanted land

Thirty years after he first fell in love with Spain, author Jason Webster distills his experiences and observations on the country into a compelling collection of essays, articles and short stories. Covering a wide range of themes from Flamenco and the legacy of the Moors to the Spanish Civil War, b...

Duende: A Journey in Search of Flamenco

Jason Webster was all set to become a conventional academic when his aloof Florentine girlfriend of some years dumped him unceremoniously, and he found himself at a crossroads. Abandoning the world of libraries and the future he had always imagined for himself, he headed off instead for Spain in sea...

A Death in Valencia

A Death in Valencia is the electrifying second Max Cámara Valencian crime novel from Jason Webster, author of Or the Bull Kills You. Max Cámara is feeling low. Ominous cracks have appeared in the walls of his flat; the body of a well-known paella chef has ...

Andalus: Unlocking the Secrets of Moorish Spain

Spain's Moorish past is evident everywhere you look. For centuries, Christians, Muslims and Jews lived in Spain side by side in peace, and it was home to some of the greatest minds in the world. After the Moors' expulsion in the seventeenth century, much of their knowledge, skill and artistry was lo...

Duende: A Journey Into the Heart of Flamenco

The music started: two guitarists beating out more Alboreás. The women took turns to dance in a frenzy, each trying to outdo the other. “Deep Song always sings in the night,” Lorca had written. It was the credo of the flamenco: a rejection of the mundane, the ordinary, the life of the everyday m...