SEVILLE detective Javier Falcon is out to catch the perpetrators of a terrorist outrage, and the death of a Russian gangster on the Costa del Sol offers him a clue.

But this is a clue which not only plunges him further into the terrorist underworld but involves him in a turf war inside the Russian Mafia and exposes those he loves most to brutality.

A cop who yearns to succeed, he is also a cop with a conscience. This last psychological thriller featuring Falcon is a hard-edged finale to a crime series that succeeds in being shocking and sensitive, intriguing and electrifying, all at the same time.