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IIgnacio AZCONA is a police inspector who receives a tip-off from an informer. Members of senior management in the police as well as several administration officials might be involved in a sordid prostitution ring based in Barcelona. Ignacio must carry out a secret investigation, away from the control of his bosses.
A not-so-young man inspiring to be a writer, for whom routine and the necessity to make a living have spelt the end of various aspirations, discovers that one of his old texts from childhood has been plagiarised. How to get others to believe in what he says when he himself can't do so?
In 1965 there were a string of mysterious murders in the north of Spain that were never solved. They might have been directly linked to the sacrifices that the long-forgotten '“Snake Path” demanded of whoever dared to walk it. Now, 30 years later, the events are being repeated, and a young police inspector will have to pursue the troubled mind trying to relive this macabre game.
Investigating their respective family histories, Gloria and Marcel meet in Riofrío, a small mountain town which in the past was not spared the turmoil of civil war.
In 1864, Antoni Riubò enlists as a doctor on board the brig Verge de Montserrat, a commercial ship making the crossing between Barcelona and the Americas, by way of Africa. When he gets to Sierra Leona, the young doctor discovers that the ship is ruled by a slave trader who is taking advantage of the voyage to take hundreds of Africans to America and sell them into slavery on the plantations.
One-Eye Durán leaves prison after 5 years, but he feels old and washed-up. Betrayed by his old gang, he soon makes a name for himself once more in a corrupt and hostile city. Extorsion, bribery and drugs trafficking are his calling card. One-Eye only understands one language: violence. And he's an expert.
In 1913 the presidente of El Salvador, Manuel Enrique Araujo, was killed with a machete by a group of uneducated country farmers who didn't entirely realise who they were killing. Together with them, an ex-army officer is also arrested, who shot and wounded Presidente Araujo during the bloody crime that took place in a park in the centre of the capital.
Pérez Domínquez gives us an unforgettable story inhabited by disenchanted heroes, enigmatic women and frantic persecutions, where love reveals itself as the holy grail which is able to redeem all the characters. A moving spy novel in the style of Graham Green's writing which Pérez Domínguez translates to the Madrid and Seville of the 1950s with ease.