Author: Manuel Vázquez Montalbán
- Fiction
- Atheneum / Macmillan
- ISBN: 9780689121210
- Release Date: 01-01-1970
-Reviewed by: America Reads Spanish

Exiled in the Dominican Republic after the Spanish Civil war, the Basque nationalist politician Jesús de Galíndez collaborated with the Dominican government. Later he moved to New York as representative of the Basque government in exile and perhaps as a CIA informant. At Columbia University he starts to work on a book about the inner workings of the Trujillo dictatorship. The secret police of the Dominican dictator kidnapped Galíndez in Manhattan in 1956 and transferred him to the island, where he was tortured and killed. An American woman investigates his disappearance in the 1980's.