October 1938. Spain is engulfed in the terror of civil war. Max Friedman is forced to leave the tranquility of his home on the outskirts of Geneva to return to the troubled Iberian Peninsula in search of an old friend, a volunteer fighter for freedom whose trail has been lost in the horrors of the front.

Friedman encounters old enemies and friends and initially tries to maintain a neutral stance, but he quickly becomes swept up in a whirlwind of intrigue and conspiracy...

The first volume of the trilogy by the great Italian master, Vittorio Giardino!