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Falco. Eva. Sabotage

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A spy and a playboy, a socialite and a good friend of all the smugglers and cabaret owners of Europe, a refined dandy and a subtle connoisseur of weapons, a carefree predator and a brilliant professional in his cynical business. Before you is Lorenzo Falco, an agent of the Franco government, a wise and dangerous lone wolf in the wild jungles of the Spanish Civil War. He is sent to Alicante, where he must arrange an escape from prison for a high-ranking Francoist official; to Tangier, where his superiors hope to get their hands on the gold of the Republic; to Paris, where he must compromise a war hero, and at the same time prevent Pablo Picasso from unveiling a monumental canvas at the World Exhibition. Falco is a free radical, a fly in the ointment, an ace up his sleeve. He values courage, including the courage of his opponent, but in his world, honor is a luxury, and sometimes an unaffordable one. In his world, only sophisticated predators survive, and when the smoke clears, they can only state with dark humor the injustice of the world order. And the predator does not let anyone into his heart - except for one brave and ruthless woman, his double from a crooked, rippling mirror...
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