How do you fight the shadows that control and manipulate power? How do you take revenge on those who have done you the greatest harm?

A very delicate criminal case unfolds in Barcelona, as some are blackmailing the city's mayor with a sexually explicit video. The investigation is assigned to the police officer Melchor, who returns from the Catalan Terra Alta region. A man with a strong sense of justice and unwavering morality, tormented by guilt for not being able to find his mother's killers, Melchor is called to solve a blackmail case whose aim is unclear—whether it targets exclusively financial gain or political destabilization.

He is thus forced to infiltrate circles of power where cynicism, unrestrained ambitions, and the harsh face of corruption reign.

In "Independence," a multifaceted novel full of action and suspense, the great Spanish author composes a shocking portrait of Barcelona's political-economic elite, the tyrannical world of money holders.

"Independence is a beautiful word. That is why I chose it. It is an incredibly meaningful word." H.T.