The novelist presents 'Revolución,' an elemental novel in Pancho Villa's Mexico.

Once a year Arturo Pérez-Reverte presents an adventure novel that the public consumes as such, with enthusiasm and joy (the publisher, Alfaguara, credits it with 20 million readers in the world).  However, this work becomes a debate, like a stone in the shoe of public morality.

‘Revolución,’ the latest Reverte, speaks of the classic themes of the novelist: crucial learning through brutality, the contradictions of human beings and the traps of political idealism. Of characters who "in the morning are heroes and in the afternoon behave like abject villains," according to a figure that has obsessed Reverte since his years as a war correspondent. Nothing that anyone cannot understand but that, for some strange reason, Pérez-Reverte must explain, almost justify, year after year.

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