El espía / The Spy

The new historical thriller by the acclaimed author Jorge Díaz.

Almería, 1952. A man flees in terror from some young men who harass him with dogs trained to kill. His corpse is abandoned, brutally mutilated, on a beach in idyllic Mojácar in the south of Spain.

To solve the crime, the Guardia Civil sends young Corporal Javier Bermejo on a mission that seems to be beyond him. Who is this man? Each piece of information leads to a different conclusion: a German spy from the Great War, a seductive nobleman who has made greed his way of life, a Nazi hierarch during the Second World War, a Jew who joined his enemies to flee from barbarism.

The Spy is a gripping journey through the first half of the 20th century, a historical thriller that portrays characters as monstrous as they are real, the cruelest of our past.

The Spy is a historical thriller loaded with mystery, love intrigues, surprising characters and settings in Spain during the first half of the 20th century.

The author immerses us in the atmosphere of Barcelona in 1917, in its power relations and its secrets; also in the Almería of the 50’s. An impressive fresco with a plot that engrosses and surprises in equal parts.

Many of the characters that appear in The Spy are real.

The mystery surrounding the enigmatic Baron keeps the reader hooked. What kind of turpitude does it take to become involved in espionage and survive the Great War, the Spanish Civil War and the barbarity of the WWII?