José Rodrigues dos Santos is Portugal’s bestselling novelist and also a journalist who started
his career working in Macau television in the 1980s. He is the author of five essays and nine
novels, including Portuguese blockbusters “Codex 632”, which sold 198,000 copies, “The
Einstein Enigma”, “The Seventh Seal” and “The Wrath of God”. His overall sales are over one
million books; astonishing figures considering Portugal’s tiny market. His fiction will have soon
been published in 17 languages. His novel “The Wrath of God” won the 2009 Porto Literary Club
Award and his other novel “Codex 632” was short-listed for the 2010 IMPAC Dublin Literary
Award. As a reporter he has covered wars around the globe, including Angola, East Timor, South
Africa, the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, Iraq, Bosnia, Serbia, Lebanon, Georgia and Libya. He has
been awarded by CNN for his reporting three times and twice by the Portuguese Press Club.
His latest novel, “The Last Secret”, has just been released and has already sold 100,000 copies.