Author: Pigna, Felipe.
Publisher: Planeta
Pages:344
Belgrano’s most outrageous mission: to find a Bourbon king for the Río de la Plata He had just been defeated. Manuel Belgrano, the general admired by all, was going through one of his darkest hours. The resounding losses at Vilcapugio and Ayohuma had left him in a precarious position—not just politically. Abandoned and far from glory, he was at the mercy of the usual powerbrokers, those who knew little of the tragedies of the battlefield. He had no choice: prison and disgrace awaited him, or he could blindly accept the mission assigned by the Buenos Aires government in Europe. He said yes. But he never imagined he was about to embark on one of the most outrageous missions in Río de la Plata’s history, alongside the ever-ambiguous Bernardino Rivadavia. From imperial Rio de Janeiro to Regency London, Belgrano would face Lord Strangford, Manuel de Sarratea, the buffoonish Count Domingo Cabarrús, and a cast of shadowy figures behind the darkest intrigues. Journeys, conspiracies, betrayals, fleeting romances, loyalties that vanish in a breath—and others sealed in blood. Based partly on the real “Italian Affair” and partly on what might well have been, Felipe Pigna’s first work of fiction reads like a gripping spy thriller, with the gravitas demanded by great historical figures. That’s why Conspiración en Londres (Conspiracy in London) is a one-of-a-kind novel—only a historian of Pigna’s stature could have written it.