Strange fires appear high in the plateaus, somewhere in the tropical forest of Latin America. General Soledad feels compelled to solve this mystery.

However, in Iquitos, General San Martínez is waiting for him to confront Bolívar's rebels together. Soledad means Loneliness.

This novel is also a book about friendship and the germ that kills it, about love and its bitter dregs.

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[Excerpt from the text on the back cover of the edition]