Ruiz Zafón returns to his characters, Daniel Sempere and Fermin Romero de Torres from Shadow of the Wind and The Angel's Game in this sequel/prequel. It is now 1957 in Barcelona. Daniel is happily married and Fermin is about to be when the appearance of a strange, old, one-armed man causes Fermin to relate the tale of his time in a horrific prison during days following the Spanish Civil War where he meets the author David Martin, whose story was told in The Angel's Game. Daniel and Fermin must return Fermin's true identity and find a way to punish the evil prison governor, Mauricio Valls.
This is the third in Ruiz Zafón's "Cemetery of Forgotten Books" series (although the Cemetery itself is only mentioned briefly). It is the weakest of the three, lacking the depth of the others, but serves to provide some missing parts of the stories of the main characters. I do wonder where a fourth installment would go with the story and I will certainly read it if and when it comes out.
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