New Spanish Titles - Year 2013 - E

In 1965 there were a string of mysterious murders in the north of Spain that were never solved. They might have been directly linked to the sacrifices that the long-forgotten '“Snake Path” demanded of whoever dared to walk it. Now, 30 years later, the events are being repeated, and a young police inspector will have to pursue the troubled mind trying to relive this macabre game.

In 1864, Antoni Riubò enlists as a doctor on board the brig Verge de Montserrat, a commercial ship making the crossing between Barcelona and the Americas, by way of Africa. When he gets to Sierra Leona, the young doctor discovers that the ship is ruled by a slave trader who is taking advantage of the voyage to take hundreds of Africans to America and sell them into slavery on the plantations.

One-Eye Durán leaves prison after 5 years, but he feels old and washed-up. Betrayed by his old gang, he soon makes a name for himself once more in a corrupt and hostile city. Extorsion, bribery and drugs trafficking are his calling card. One-Eye only understands one language: violence. And he's an expert.

In 1913 the presidente of El Salvador, Manuel Enrique Araujo, was killed with a machete by a group of uneducated country farmers who didn't entirely realise who they were killing. Together with them, an ex-army officer is also arrested, who shot and wounded Presidente Araujo during the bloody crime that took place in a park in the centre of the capital.