A remarkably assured debut set during the Spanish Civil War, which tells the story of four ordinary men on one extraordinary night.

Four young men are in a car on their way to assassinate the politician Don Rojo: a man with a beautiful daughter, and a troubled soul. The subsequent events that unfold during one bizarre night of the Spanish Civil War are described in prose that is taut, evocative and darkly witty. As the rain pours down on the Tibidabo road, the would-be murderers encounter lusty barmaids, crises of conscience, road blocks and - with fatal results - the man who ordered Rojo's assassination, and all the while the war boils around them.