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Christian Duverger, un destacado historiador con amplio reconocimiento internacional, entrega su primera novela a partir de una exhaustiva documentacion acerca de un personaje fascinante que transformo la historia del mundo entero.

En la frontera entre Espana y Francia, un comando policiaco captura a un grupo terrorista que lleva de contrabando un manuscrito antiguo para venderlo en el mercado negro. Mientras tanto, encuentran el cuerpo de una mujer con quince punaladas. En un inicio parecen casos aislados, pero pronto se revela un punto en comun: todo parece girar en torno al Diario de abordo de Cristobal Colon, perdido desde hace cinco siglos, y del cual hay dos versiones.

Ricardo Luna, encargado de esclarecer el asesinato y hallar al culpable, debe dar un salto en el tiempo, pues la clave del crimen parece estar cifrada en el documento historico y todos los enigmas que encierra. Para lograrlo, cuenta con Myrta Pitti, una prominente historiadora italiana. Ella lo guia en la biografia del Almirante, un autentico laberinto hecho de intrigas, celos, conspiraciones politicas, luchas de poder y amores clandestinos.

Pronto comienzan una apasionada relacion y viajan por los bulevares de Paris, las calles de Madrid y Sevilla, los suntuosos teatros de Nueva York, las antiguas plazas virreinales de la Ciudad de Mexico y Santo Domingo, descifrando los crimenes y siguiendo las huellas de Colon, una apasionante figura que, a quinientos anos de su muerte, entre mitos y leyendas, sigue despertando polemicas, pasiones, romances y asesinatos.


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On the border between Spain and France, a police command captures a terrorist group that is smuggling an ancient manuscript in order to sell it on the black market.

Meanwhile, they find the body of a woman with fifteen stab wounds. At first they seem like isolated incidents, but soon a link is drawn between them: everything seems to be connected to Christopher Columbus's journal, lost five centuries ago, and of which there exist two versions.

Ricardo Luna, in charge of solving the murder and finding the culprit, must go back in time, because the key to the crime seems to be locked in the historical document and all the mysteries surrounding it. To achieve his aims, he is counting on Myrta Pitti, a prominent Italian historian. She guides him in the explorer's biography, a true labyrinth of plots, jealousy, political conspiracies, power struggles, and clandestine love...

Soon they begin a passionate relationship and travel through the boulevards of Paris, the streets of Madrid and Seville, the sumptuous theaters of New York, and the ancient viceregal plazas of Mexico City and Santo Domingo, deciphering the crimes and following the trail of Christopher Columbus, a thrilling figure that, even 500 years after his death, between myths and legends, continues to cause controversy, passions, romances, and murders.

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Christian Duverger nacio en 1948 en Burdeos, Francia. Es doctor por la Universidad de la Sorbona, en Paris, y profesor de la catedra de antropologia social y cultural de Mesoamerica en la Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales. Fue consejero cultural de la embajada de Francia en Mexico. Se ha dedicado al estudio del Mexico prehispanico y virreinal y ha realizado trabajos arqueologicos en nuestro pais. Ha colaborado con el Instituto Nacional de Antropologia e Historia, la Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico, la Universidad de Guadalajara y es miembro numerico de la Academia Nacional de Historia y Geografia de Mexico. Entre sus publicaciones se encuentran Cronica de la eternidad; Cortes. La biografia mas reveladora; El primer mestizaje. La clave para entender el pasado mesoamericano; La flor letal; El origen de los aztecas; La conversion de los indios de la Nueva Espana; Mesoamerica. Arte y antropologia, y Agua y fuego. Arte sacro indigena en el siglo XVI. En 2016 publico El ancla de arena, su primera novela.

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  • Publication date2016
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  • ISBN 13 9786073138451
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