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A dark and riveting thriller that reimagines the life and mission of the Spanish nationalist enlisted to murder Leon Trotsky: Based on a true chapter of world background and a decade of research, here is the story of the real-life hesitant soldier and killer, Ramn Mercader-the obedient assassin.Ramn Mercader was plucked from leading of the Spanish Civil War by the Soviets and conscripted to murder the great intellectual Leon Trotsky, a head of the Bolshevik Trend who was exiled in the 1920s for opposing Joseph Stalin.As Ramn is trained for the task and assumes a new identity, he lives a lush life in Paris, befriending Frida Kahlo and other musicians and artists of that time period. He falls deeply in love with a left-leaning Jewish girl whom he is purchased to seduce as a way of getting at Trotsky.From Barcelona to Paris and New York to Mexico City, the group handling Ramn-including Ramn's mother and her lover-guides the assassin on the inescapable resolution of his grim activity as he must permeate Trotsky's compound.
