Detective novel set in turn of the century Barcelona. Baron Castellfullit is at the centre of a plot of hatred that culminates in a failed assassination attempt that will cost the lives of five people. Everyone has a motive for killing the baron.

When an English boat brings coal for the furnaces, becomes stranded off the Cantabric coast, finally breaking and dumping its load into the sea. The whole village of Algorta, during the night, wakes up to pick the very much needed coal up.

Vindictive secretaries, Mcjobs, spam, impossible loves, domestic possessions, neighbourhood pimps, amateur boys in love with their female best friends, MSN murders, white trash girls, gigantic beetles, nymphomaniacs with webcams, crazy spiritualis

The three themes that make up the title of this book have for the last few years occupied the pages of newspapers and magazines, and been the focus of ethics debates not only by specialists, but also by a wider public interested in the consequence