LOS TREINTA APELLIDOS

"Behind every great fortune lies a great crime" (Balzac)

Does an illustrious family name obligate you to defend it even against your own ideas?

Juan Urbano, literature professor, writer for hire and occasional detective, is hired by a man from a family whose vast fortune is built on slave trafficking in the past, to find the descendants of a secret daughter of one of their ancestors. During his investigation, Urbano must navigate resistance from other members of the clan, who have no intention of sharing their empire with a new heir and are willing to do anything to stop him.

This is the beginning of a sinister plot that reaches from Spain to Cuba, and from there to Africa, allowing the reader to discover how some of the largest fortunes in Spain were made...

Juan Urbano is the protagonist of previous novels by Benjamín Prado: MALA GENTE QUE CAMINA (2011), OPERACION GLADIO (2011) and AJUSTE DE CUENTAS (2013).