Lo de Gisbert Haefs is a life devoted to literature both in the translation of very disparate authors and in an own bibliography rich in its obvious eclectic references and diverse in its ability to address very different genres.
On this occasion we are approaching a historical novel about one of those hot spots in the long imperialist period of a Europe that passed the baton from one country to another in that supposed discovery of new worlds soon considered as its own. A novel that connects, as far as the conflict between the Spanish and English empires is concerned, with the recent England defeatedby Álvaro van de Brule.
The fragility of the last years of the Spanish empire already originated in the War of Succession. And it was then when the English fleets, the officers and those that sheltered buccaneers, filibusters when not directly pirates in charge of assaulting everything that sounded like wealth and power ultimately for the glory of the British flag.
In this unsustainable situation for a weakened Spanish empire, the last lashes of pride turn into skirmishes with overtones of defeat for old Spain. Jenkins is one of those buccaneers sent from London who conceals his identity under the role of a simple merchant. And he is the trigger for a treasure hunt that will move this plot between disputes and fascinating discoveries in a Caribbean environment still open to great discoveries.
Jenkins's ear, sectioned by the Spanish captain Juan León Fandiño marks the beginning of a Caribbean war always desired by an England eager for a casus beli with which to crush all Spanish vestige in the Caribbean.
Reality and fiction are mixed in a warlike environment in which Dr. Tobias Smollett wants to make his own profit by dedicating himself to the search for a treasure that can bring him enormous glory and that can rebuild the coffers of an English empire in need of economic power with which maintain your thriving dominance in the new world.
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