Conrad serves up a tasty snack.Library Journal

[a] highly entertaining thriller.Chicago Tribune

What a terrific story!William F. Buckley, Jr.

Barnaby Conrad has written a hair-raising, glamorous adventure talea winner!Sidney Sheldon

Riveting and utterly enjoyable.Gayle Lynds, best-selling author of Mesmerized

Europe, 1945: Hitler is dead; the Third Reich is an open wound. Amid the chaos, a man like no other makes his way south through France and into Spain. No one will stand in his way and live. Only idealistic young Wilson Tripp, American vice-consul in the city of Seville, stands to discover the mans true identity and the stunning threat he posesthat is, if Wilson Tripp can survive.

Said Barnaby Conrad, It is hard to explain how colorful, exciting, and occasionally dangerous neutral Spain was in that era; the closest thing I can compare it to would be to the film Casablanca, with its Nazi villains, American heroes, beautiful women, and spies. And intrigue, always intrigue. In this book, Ive done my best to recreate twenty-four hours in 1945 in Seville at the very end of the war. Most of the names and incidents are fictitious, but the setting is my Andalucia, as authentic as I can reproduce it after so many decades.


Barnaby Conrad is the author of twenty-five books of fiction and nonfiction, including Hemingway's Spain, How to Fight a Bull, and Matador, which has sold more than three million copies. He is an artist and former bullfighter and American vice-consul in Spain, founder and codirector of the Santa Barbara Writer's Conference, and a native San Franciscan.

Grover Gardner, named one of the "Best Voices of the Century" by AudioFile magazine, has recorded more than five hundred audiobooks. He is the recipient of more than thirteen Earphones Awards as well as an Audie Award. In addition to narrating, he has an active career as an actor and stage director. He lives in Washington, D.C.