Will loyalty and love have the final word? Or betrayal and violence? The virtuoso storyteller Arturo Pérez-Reverte takes us into a shadowy world in this gripping spy novel, where everyone has a price to pay. Spain, 1936. The spy Lorenzo Falcó is charismatic, cunning, and faces the most daring mission of his life: he must rescue a high-ranking political prisoner in southern Alicante and save him from certain death, a mission that could change the course of the war. Falcó has three companions, including the enigmatic Eva Rengel. They have never met before but must rely completely on each other. As they become increasingly entangled in a web of cruelty and deception, Falcó and Eva grow closer. Dangerously close, as it soon becomes clear that all parties are playing a double game.