Il tredicesimo dei romanzi con protagonista un personaggio singolare e autentico, immerso in una catastrofe immane: Martin Bora, l’ufficiale della Wehrmacht diviso tra l’obbedienza alla divisa e l’avversione agli orrori del nazismo. Tra amori perduti e traffici illegali, serate folli e pogrom sanguinosi, Ben Pastor ci trascina sul fronte orientale e nella città-simbolo di Odessa, iconica, misteriosa, affascinante.
Ben (Maria Verbena Volpi) Pastor was born in Rome, but her career as a college teacher and writer requires that she divide her time between the United States and Italy, where she is now doing research. Author of the internationally acclaimed Martin Bora war mysteries, she begins with Aelius Spartianus a new series of thrilling tales. In addition to the United States, her novels are published in Italy, Germany, Spain, Poland, and the Czech Republic. She writes in English.