Tomás is called upon to finish an unresolved investigation and quickly immerses himself in the fascinating history of the discovery of the Americas.
He stumbles on the one enigma that no historian has ever been able to solve: who was Christopher Columbus? A poor, ignorant Genoese wool weaver, or an educated, well-connected Iberian nobleman?
J.R. Dos Santos is a university lecturer and a journalist who covered wars around the globe and is now hosting the evening news in Portugal. He is also the author of seven essays and sixteen novels, all bestsellers in Portugal and abroad.