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The arrival of the year 2000 kept humanity on the edge of their seats on New Years Eve of 1999, a night when the world’s technology could have been completely paralyzed. The effects were, almost certainly, exaggerated but it helped everyone realize how our society and daily lives have become so dependent on technology.
A letter buried amongst military archives allows Ernesto López, a professor of Contemporary History, to discover the unknown story of Sergeant José Rico, a young man who, in 1936, only a few days into the uprising, tried to kill General Franco.
In 1935, Manuel Bosch, a lawyer, became president of the Mixed Tribunal of the New Hebrides (nowadays Vanuatu), a remote archipelago in the South Pacific which at that time was contested by the British and the French. With this unusual task, Bosch left Barcelona in February 1936 to begin the long and exciting journey which is narrated in the book.
This volume now brings together the three novels - El Inocente (The Innocent), La Tarde (The Afternoon) and El Ayudante del Verdugo (The Executioner’s Assistant) – published by Mario Lacruz during his lifetime. In their day, these novels met with equal success from the critics and the public.