Author: Manuel Vázquez Montalbán
- Fiction
- Booket
- ISBN: 9788408071952
- Release Date: 01-01-1970
-Reviewed by: America Reads Spanish

Pepe Carvalho is the Hispanic equivalent of the great misanthropic and skeptical detectives which abound in the American thriller. In this case, the detective has to investigate the death of Secretary General of the Communist Party of Spain, assassinated while presiding over a meeting of the Party's Central Committee.