Sabotage at Guernica: this is the plot of the latest chapter in Pérez-Reverte's spy saga

Preventing Pablo Picasso from contributing his art to Republican propaganda and obstructing the display of Guernica at the1937 Paris World’s Fair: this is the goal of Lorenzo Falcó, an agent of the Francoist espionage service.

It happens in the third and final part of Arturo Pérez-Reverte’s trilogy: the last novel in his espionage saga, titled Sabotaje (Sabotage), where Lorenzo Falcó is again the protagonist, is set at the very time when the famous Picasso is making one of his great masterpieces, Guernica, in a building on behalf of the Republic.

In the novel we read that Picasso “no pintó el Guernica por patriotismo ni por democracia; lo pintó por muchísimo dinero” (he painted Guernica neither for patriotism nor for democracy; he made it for much much much money).

Will Lorenzo Falcó succeed in his intent?

Source: El Mundo - El País

Sabotage at Guernica: this is the plot of the latest chapter in Pérez-Reverte's spy saga

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