It seems that there is no such task in the world that Agent Lorenzo Falco, the main character of the espionage trilogy of the Spanish journalist, writer and former military correspondent Arturo Perez-Reverte, could not handle. And now fate threw Falco to Spain, which is torn apart by a civil war. Accustomed to perceiving life as a series of dangerous adventures, he will persevere this time too: he will fulfill another order, get out of another mess...