Who was that guy? The file portrays a frustrated and bitter intellectual; one more like many others, except for his evident capacity to assume dangerous attitudes. However, the character who had kidnapped Marques was, without a doubt, a professional, and not only in terms of literature. The whole kidnap operation seemed to be executed by someone extremely familiar with violence and simulation. Like the real, imminent danger threatening the king in a chess game, the Professor devises an intricate plan to regain his son, in an almost suicidal attempt to win the game against one of the best...

This book is a novel that tells the story of Antonio and Fernando Bachicao, father and son, both officers of the Ministry of the Interior. Colonel Antonio Bachicao, former member of Che Guevara's troop, is a high-level agent of the section specializing in espionage and subversion. His son Fernando, a lawyer, has the rank of captain and is the head of the Department of Technical Investigations in Santiago de Cuba, which investigates common crimes. In a cave of the Sierra Maestra, a farmer's child discovers by chance the decade old skeleton of a murdered man. Captain Bachicao is intrigued by...