New York: St Martin's, (1987) dj. Hardcover first edition - The fifth novel in the award winning series featuring Superintendent Bernal of the Madrid police, who is sent to Las Palmas in the Canary Islands "to beef up security before a visit there by the president of Spain. [He hopes to] join his lover Consuelo Lozano on the island where she awaits the imminent birth of their baby. But the revolutionaries, who have already killed to prevent interference with their plot against the president, grab Consuelo and keep her hidden. . Bernal grapples with the worst criminals of his career in this taut mystery, as he fights to save lives, especially those of Consuelo and his unborn child." (Publishers Weekly) 184 pp. ISBN: 0-31201077X.