March 1953. Alexander is walking through the streets of London with a
bomb in his hand. It is destined for Marshal Tito, during his
controversial visit to Great Britain. Alexander’s story began several
months earlier, when his mother was struck by a car and instantly
killed. Trying to understand why and how his mother, who was in an
institution for senile elderly people, wound up so far from her home,
Alexander finds himself caught up in a spiral of terror involving the
British secret service, strange Serbian nationalists, and the island of
Majorca… All of which culminate, several months later, with Alexander
finding himself on the bank of the Thames, holding a bag with a bomb in
it… A tale of espionage. The 1950s and the Cold War, with its maneuvers
and countermaneuvers, each assassination triggering a new retaliation,
all in the service of a simple but distant goal for those who pull the
strings. Cava gives us a story à la John le Carré, the author of The Spy
Who Came In From the Cold. In the background, we see the roots of the
Yugoslav conflict that finally erupted in 1991, but whose fuse was lit
with the death of Tito.