Fraile thought he'd left killing behind.

Then the past came calling, when Colonel Alvarez of military intelligence knocked on his door. America's new leader, President Eisenhower, is about to visit the sector of post-Franco Spain under U.S. occupation, but a conspiracy set in motion across the border, in Spain's Soviet sector, threatens to topple the puppet regime backed by Washington, and plunge Spain back into civil war.

Blackmailed by Alvarez, Fraile crosses the border into communist Spain, where he's already a condemned man. In Soviet-occupied Barcelona he poses as a hardened Vice cop, his cover the investigation of a massacre at one of the city's transsexual brothels. His real assignment: find and eliminate the conspirator fingered by Alvarez. The two missions should not intersect. In a city of shadows and lies, they do. Hunted by a relentless secret police inspector hot on his heels, Fraile races against time to short-circuit the conspiracy before it's too late for his country, and for him. Speculative fiction meets Spanish noir in A Killing in Soviet Barcelona: a sweeping, high-stakes thriller of espionage, betrayal, and the price a man pays when the past refuses to stay buried.

What reviewers in Spain are saying

"Characters so dastardly that they captivate you. Every page is a surprise... A novel that is well worth reading." - @librosxflores

"The literary style is forceful and effective... A highly recommended cocktail, one part each dystopia, historical novel, and political thriller, mixed well." - @ver_y_leer