Ediciones B 2018

A plot in the First World War, a spy to unravel all its mysteries.

In this third installment of the acclaimed series featuring journalist and detective Christopher Marlowe Cobb, Robert Olen Butler presents a shrewd Kitt Cobb, who will confront his new mission with cunning and ferocity: to uncover, in the midst of World War I, the true intentions of the English nobleman Sir Albert Stockman.

To do so, he will have the help of his mother, the electrifying Isabel Cobb, who, in addition to being an undercover spy, is one of the most famous actresses of her time. Under the cold British skies traversed by German zeppelins, mother and son will investigate this enigmatic figure closely, gradually becoming entangled in a complex plot that will take them to the very heart of German darkness: Berlin.

In this intense setting, love, loyalty to family, and a sinister arms project that could tip the balance of the war in Germany’s favor intertwine, deeply shaking the loyalties of our protagonists. Will Kitt and Isabel Cobb emerge unscathed from the clutches of the Kaiser’s men?

“And he proposed to me that, in war, death is death. If it is achieved through the suffering of the eyes, lungs, brain, and heart due to chemistry, there is no difference from the suffering of limbs, head, and torso by means of metallurgy.”