Author(s): Leonardo Padura Fuentes
Format: Paperback
No. of Pages: 765
Publisher: Tusquets Editores
Language: Spanish
Date Published: 2011-08-11
Dimensions: 126 x 190 x 42mm
Publication City/Country: Barcelona, Spain
Edition: 5th ed.
Illustrations:

A journalist and assistant in a veterinary clinic, flashes back towards an episode in his life when he met a man who used to walk by the beach with two Russian dogs. After several meetings, the man said Jaime Lopez was his name, and began to tell him his confidences focusing on the figure of Trotsky's murderer, Ramon Mercader, of whom he claims have been friends.