Arturo Andrade, a soldier of the Blue Division, who we already knew from the novel The time of the strange emperors, comes back now to take part in one of the most sinister episodes of the contemporary history: the end of World War II.

Berlin 1945. The soviets move forward, unstoppable, trough streets filled with rubble, the city is involved in a fierce fighting, and the German defeat is imminent. Arturo Andrade finds himself right in the middle of all that chaos. His mission is to find Ewald von Kleist, a German scientist whose dead body was found in the Reich's Chancellery with a mysterious diagram in his pocket.

So begins this new heart-stopping thriller, written with passion and rigorous research, keeping a pace throughout the novel that does not give a breather to the reader, it introduces a character who will have to confront many demons, his own and somebody else's, to save the only thing that seems to be apart from that horrifying scenario: the love of a woman. At the very same time, this novel talks about the Stauffenberg plot, the megalomaniacal project of Germany, the German atomic program, a mysterious film recorded at the Berghof, the Thule Society, the frenzy in the last two years of the German defeat, the wild defense of Berlin by the SS, Hitler's last days in the bunker, the Soviet atrocities, the nihilism of the Nazis, the sacrifice of children.