1950. Mexico City. During a literary tour throughout Latinamerica, Mr. Félix Arcadia, a spanish writer and diplomatic, is kidnaped in Morelia by a group of exiled republicans. The captain Arturo Andrade and his comrade Manolete, who were his bodyguards, begin a desperate search all over México. Meanwhile, they move among a complex geopolitical game, the spanish republican exile, the Mexican intellectuality, old revolutionary generals, mercenaries and killers from the Caribbean Legion, soviet spies, arms dealers… And they travel all along a México full of myths and poetry that, as you can read in the novel, "it is not a country but a kind of madness...".

The novel embodies the second part of the 20th century, talking about an episode as essential as little known of the spanish history. Always in a thriller code, the intrigue mixed up with the passion and the documental exactitude.