The plot addresses current global issues like the war for the control of the supply of coltan or tantalite, a mineral so valuable due to its content of tantalum an niobium (columbite) that has become essential in the developped world technology. A great novel charged with action, intrigue and top-class story-telling. I have been an admirer of Alberto Vazquez-Figueroa's books since I was a teenager. He has been always my literary idol, and the inspiration to become a journalist, a war correspondent and finally a successful novelist. (Arturo Perez Reverte, International bestselling author of The Queen of the South.) Vazquez-Figueroa is one of the best Spanish writers of our time, and certainly the most commercially successful! (Jose Manuel Lara, President and founder of the Grupo Planeta, the largest publishing group of Spain and Latin America)
