Author: Javier Cercas
- Fiction
- Debolsillo
- ISBN: 9788466329378
- Release Date: 01-01-1970
-Reviewed by: America Reads Spanish

Rafael Sánchez Mazas was a well-known Spanish Falangist writer and politician who was captured by the Republican government during the Civil War. During the final withdrawal of the army to the French border, he was taken before a firing squad and seemed certain to die. The research undertaken by an academic to clarify the elements of this story, becomes a search to discover the identity of the soldier who saved Sánchez Mazas from certain death, and more importantly, to discover his purpose for doing so. An extraordinary work about heroism, love, the passage of time and the recovery of the memories of the disappeared.