The Horseman's Song

Resumen del libro

Spain, summer 1937. The civil war between Spanish nationalists and republicans rages. On the bloody sierras of Aragon, among Generalissimo Franco's volunteers is Martin Bora, the twenty-something German officer and detective whose future adventures will be told in Lumen, Liar Moon, The Road to Ithaca and others in the Bora series.

Presently a lieutenant in the Spanish Foreign Legion, Bora lives the tragedy around him as an intoxicating epic, between idealism and youthful recklessness. The first doubts, however, rise in Bora' s mind when he happens on the body of Federico Garcia Lorca, a brilliant poet, progressive and homosexual. Who murdered him? Why? The official version does not convince Bora, who begins a perilous investigation.

His inquiry paradoxically proceeds alongside that which is being carried out by an "enemy": Philip Walton, an American member of the International Brigades. Soon enough the German and the New Englander will join forces, and their cooperation will not only culminate in a thrilling chase after a murderer, but also in a very human, existential face-to-face between two adversaries forever changed by their crime-solving encounter...

Biografía del autor

Ben Pastor, nacida en Roma y licenciada en Literatura, ha vivido durante treinta años en Estados Unidos, donde se dedicó a la docencia de ciencias sociales en distintos colleges de Ohio, Illinois y Vermont. Se la considera una de las escritoras actuales con más talento en el campo de la ficción histórica y policíaca. Sus novelas han sido traducidas a numerosas lenguas. En Alianza Editorial están publicadas sus anteriores obras ("Lumen", "Cielo de plomo", "El camino a Ítaca" y "Los pequeños incendios"), que también tienen como protagonista al oficial del Ejército alemán Martin Bora.