A meeting with Ernesto Guevara, the man behind the myth. The distinguished Mexican writer, historian, and journalist Paco Ignacio Taibo II took eight years of intensive research to write the biography of Che Guevara. For its writing, he utilized more than one thousand three hundred different sources.

Among them were Che's personal diaries from his campaign in Africa, as well as the diary from Bolivia. With rich photographic material and texts by Che himself (letters, handwritten notes, articles, poems, speeches, lectures, phrases recorded by reliable witnesses), many of which are unpublished, this is the most comprehensive biography of the great comandante that has been published to date.

The work has been translated into more than ten languages and is available in over twenty countries. Taibo seeks to provide the human dimension of Che, a sui generis anarchist. He does not attempt to "sanctify" him or interpret him politically. This book, written with passion and dedication, is already considered a classic.