Garbo parla

Some say that the Catalan Joan Pujol Garcia, Garbo, has been the best spy in history. During the darkest years of the dictatorship, this ordinary Catalan, in addition to collaborating with the allies, became the trusted man of the German secret services in Spain. His performance, with resounding success, mounting a false network of spies through which he managed to send erroneous information to the Nazis, which favored the English landing in Normandy, has always been shrouded in mystery. But who was Garbo really? Roser Caminals now novelizes his mythical feats, and above all captures his soul, his deepest vulnerability and his silences and contradictions, such as the inevitable conflict between public activity and personal life. The accomplices to whom he is faithful and the enemies to whom he betrays also appear, as well as the two women he loved. A total portrait that offers us the lights and shadows of an enigmatic character, a vivid with a great imagination and inventiveness who began deserting on the Ebro front and traveled various stages on both sides of the Atlantic. His exceptionality, however, is inseparable from his meanness.