CLICK EDICIONES 2015

Summer of 1991. Saint Petersburg is about to regain its name. The Soviet Union is collapsing. Agent Mihail Bonet cleans his revolver. He has to attend a suspicious meeting. On the eve of it, kept awake by the white nights, he revisits his wandering life: his childhood in a peasant family, his entry into a monastery in Barcelona to escape the servitude of the vineyard, the whirlwind of the Civil War that swept him into a group of gunmen and onto the Madrid front, where he risked his life trying to kill Durruti. Then, his encounter with one of the Old Believers—as the followers of Archpriest Avvakum were called—who would become an obsessive mission.

Comrade Mihail strokes each bullet to perfect his aim. He hides the weapon under his pillow. He recalls his departure from Spain and his new life in Russia, his desperate leap forward when he joined the Soviet secret police, his betrayal of the exiled Republicans, the hardships during the siege of Leningrad, the fear of Stalin’s purges, the persecution of religious dissidents. And finally, the love he had been denied for so long: the days of wine and roses with Vera, the Kirov Theatre ballerina with a doll’s face and a graceful body, who restored his forgotten smile. Then, a cruel twist of fate, a descent into hell.

Now, in the solitude of his room, Agent Bonet grips his Nagant to feel alive. In the morning, he will go to the appointed place. He will go, as always, ready to kill or to die. Without questions. Without remorse. Without doubts…