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Los jugadores
A series of individuals from various countries meet at the Paris Peace Conference in 1919: some Spaniards - a journalist nicknamed "Carte Blanche", a strange freelance reporter, a speculator and his lover - and others from the powers involved in the conflict. These include a North-American congressman, an activist determined to spread his message, diplomats, exiled Russians and historic figures like President Wilson, Churchill, Keynes and Clemenceau. Following a murder, Detective Inspector Retier will begin an investigation that will weave together their various paths and will reveal the conflicts that spring up when so many countries meet to defend very different interests. A fascinating novel with disturbing echoes of the present about European identity set just before the Treaty of Versailles.