Quienes manejan los hilos

The great truth is about to be discovered, that one of the best kept secrets in recent Spanish history will be revealed. Santolaya fears that he could be related to the events and decides that it is time to flee, to abandon a career that has led him to the La Moncloa plumbing through the intelligence services. From dictatorship to democracy, more than forty years always very close to power and decision-making. On his trip he evokes the past in Barcelona in the late sixties, when, as an idle teenager, chance made him start working as a guide for an illustrious North American, a commercial attaché with good contacts at the embassy. McNamara, however, was in charge of weaving the networks of contacts between all those actors interested in having a prominent role in the imminent Spanish transition. Barcelona bustles. It is a minefield and a testing ground. Of conspiracies and conspiracies. The ideal terrain for corruption, and where the forces of the regime have a privateering license. Ramón Santolaya, avid reader and radio devotee, will find himself involved in plots typical of a world that he only believed existed in fiction. A story about friendship and first loves, of crimes and abuses in the blackest Spain, of betrayals and sweet revenge.