Horseman's Song

In 1937, during the Spanish Civil War, Lieutenant Martin Bora, a German officer and detective, investigates the murder of Federico Garcia Lorca, a poet and progressive. He teams up with Philip Walton, an American member of the International Brigades, to solve the case, leading to a thrilling chase and a human, existential face-to-face between two adversaries.

Format: Paperback / softback
Length: 376 pages
Publication date: 07 February 2019
Publisher: Bitter Lemon Press

Spain, summer 1937. The civil war between Spanish nationalists and republicans rages. Among Generalissimo Francisco's volunteers is Martin Bora, a twenty-something German officer and detective whose future adventures will be told in Lumen, Liar Moon, The Road to Ithaca, and others in the Bora series. Presently a lieutenant in the Spanish Foreign Legion, Bora lives the tragedy around him as an intoxicating epic, between idealism and youthful recklessness. The first doubts, however, rise in Bora's mind when he happens upon the body of Federico Garcia Lorca, a brilliant poet, progressive, and homosexual. Who murdered him? Why? The official version does not convince Bora, who begins a perilous investigation. His inquiry paradoxically proceeds alongside that which is being carried out by an "enemy": Philip Walton, an American member of the International Brigades. Soon enough, the German and the New Englander will join forces, and their cooperation will not only culminate in a thrilling chase after a murderer, but also in a very human, existential face-to-face between two adversaries forever changed by their crime-solving encounter.

Spain, summer 1937. The civil war between Spanish nationalists and republicans rages.

Among Generalissimo Francisco's volunteers is Martin Bora, a twenty-something German officer and detective whose future adventures will be told in Lumen, Liar Moon, The Road to Ithaca, and others in the Bora series.

Presently a lieutenant in the Spanish Foreign Legion, Bora lives the tragedy around him as an intoxicating epic, between idealism and youthful recklessness.

The first doubts, however, rise in Bora's mind when he happens upon the body of Federico Garcia Lorca, a brilliant poet, progressive, and homosexual.

Who murdered him? Why? The official version does not convince Bora, who begins a perilous investigation.

His inquiry paradoxically proceeds alongside that which is being carried out by an "enemy": Philip Walton, an American member of the International Brigades.

Soon enough, the German and the New Englander will join forces, and their cooperation will not only culminate in a thrilling chase after a murderer, but also in a very human, existential face-to-face between two adversaries forever changed by their crime-solving encounter.

Weight: 368g
Dimension: 131 x 197 x 29 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781912242115