Set in 1942 and 1943 and based on real events, El Italiano, the new novel by Arturo Pérez-Reverte, recounts an episode of war and espionage that occurred during World War II in Gibraltar and the Bay of Algeciras.

The Italian tells an amazing story of love, sea and war. In the years 1942 and 1943, during World War II, Italian combat divers sank or damaged fourteen Allied ships in Gibraltar and the Bay of Algeciras. In this novel, inspired by real events, only some of the characters and situations are fictitious. Elena Arbués, a twenty-seven-year-old bookseller, finds one of these divers at dawn while walking on the beach, laying unconscious on the shore. When helping him, the young woman ignores that with this action she will change her life and that love will only be part of a dangerous adventure.

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