HarperCollins, 2021

October 1940. General Francisco Franco plans to travel by train to Hendaye to meet Adolf Hitler.

Elsa Braumann is a young translator of German books, eking out a living in Madrid in 1940 while caring for her sister.

One night, she is summoned to the Madrid Headquarters for a secret mission related to the Franco–Hitler meeting.

Over the following days, Elsa grows close to Captain Bernal, head of security for the operation, a cultured man and a cinema lover, much like herself.

But someone threatens Elsa, forcing her into a counter-espionage operation: she will have only three minutes to steal certain documents from Franco aboard the train to Hendaye.

The fate of the Second World War now rests in the fragile hands of Elsa Braumann—hands that are about to betray the man she is falling in love with.