Spain, summer 1937, the civil war rages. A Wehrmacht officer assigned to Franco's Spanish Foreign Legion investigates the murder of the poet Frederico Garcia Lorca, as does his opponent, an American member of the International Brigades.
The sixth Martin Bora adventure goes back to the earliest point on the chronology yet. Bora investigates the death of a much-loved radical poet on the sun-blasted sierras of the Spanish Civil War.