How do you confront those who wield power from the shadows? How do you take revenge on those who have hurt you the most? Melchor Marín returns. And he returns to Barcelona, where he is called in to investigate a delicate case: the city's mayor is being blackmailed with a sexual video.
Burdened by the pain of not having found his mother's killers, but also guided by his unyielding sense of justice and his rock-solid moral integrity, Melchor must dismantle an extortion scheme whose purpose-whether simple financial gain or political destabilization-remains unclear. To do so, he ventures into the circles of power, a world ruled by cynicism, ruthless ambition, and corrupt brutality.
In this way, the novel-absorbing and fierce, populated by a host of unforgettable characters-becomes a devastating portrait of Barcelona's political and economic elite, but above all a furious indictment of the tyranny of those who control the money and rule the world.
