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Spain's colonial war in Morocco collapses in 1921, when Rif Berbers rout its army within days and thousands of soldiers are killed. Captain Augusto Santamaría gets away alive, but the injuries he suffered end his career in uniform. Unwillingly he takes up a desk in the Madrid security police, where nobody values his record. Then a killing in a brothel turns out to have a political background, and he senses that he may matter after all. Ranging from the Rif to Madrid and Barcelona over the two and a half years that follow, the novel shows army officers, politicians and a servant girl pushed into prostitution in a country rigging its own elections.

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About the book

Form

Novel

Length

622 pages in the original

Genres

Historical, War, Politics (assigned by AI)

Set in

Morocco, Spain, 1921–1923

First published

2011 by Prometheus

Author's age

35 when first published

ISBN

9789044616309 (original)