Spain, summer 1937. The civil war between Spanish nationalists and
republicans rages. On the bloody sierras of Aragon, among Generalissimo
Franco's volunteers is Martin Bora, the twenty-something German officer
and detective whose future adventures will be told in Lumen, Liar Moon,
The Road to Ithaca and others in the Bora series.
Presently a lieutenant in the Spanish Foreign Legion, Bora lives the
tragedy around him as an intoxicating epic, between idealism and
youthful recklessness.
The first doubts, however, rise in Bora's mind when he happens on the
body of Federico Garcia Lorca, a brilliant poet, progressive and
homosexual. Who murdered him? Why? The official version does not
convince Bora, who begins a perilous investigation. His inquiry
paradoxically proceeds alongside that which is being carried out by an
"enemy" Philip Walton, an American member of the International Brigades.
Soon enough the German and the New Englander will join forces, and their
cooperation will not only culminate in a thrilling chase after a
murderer, but also in a very human, existential face-to-face between two
adversaries forever changed by their crime-solving encounter...