End of the 19th century. León de Ubach, owner of an industrial Colony, returns from England with a splendid wife on his arm: Inés is beautiful, cultured, and thirty years younger than him.

In March 1936, Madrid is a city in turmoil after the recent electoral victory of the Frente Popular.

A humorous novel which follows the pattern of classic detective fiction, adapting this to the Valencia of the 1980s. Two characters are involved in a dangerous adventure to try and get back a strange jewel.

Wamba is an eleven-year-old captive boy in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. He and his family are constantly controlled by soldiers who force them to work in the dangerous coltan mines, a highly-prized mineral in the first world.