The Name of the Matador (sepulveda Series)
by (intellectual) Luis Sepulveda
About This Novel
This book tells a detective story with the main line of fighting for gold coins lost during World War II. When the famous traveler Ibn Battuta died, the Sultan ordered one hundred gold coins to be minted and buried under a hundred intersections that the traveler had passed. However, his will was not fully implemented and the gold coins changed hands countless times. During World War II, the last owner died in a German fascist concentration camp, and the gold coin fell into the hands of the Berlin police chief. War-weary German police officers Hans and Ulrich dream of leaving Germany one day and living a free life in Tierra del Fuego at the southern tip of Chile. They accidentally discovered the sixty-three stolen gold coins in the cellar, and decided to take the gold coins and escape to Chile by boat via Hamburg. In Hamburg, their actions were discovered by the Gestapo. Hans was able to escape, but Ulrich was captured. Under severe torture for nearly four years, Ulrich never revealed the secret of Tierra del Fuego.
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