Carlos Fortea Book order (chronological)

Winter, January 1945. It is cold and dark, and the German army is retreating from the Russian advance. Germans are fleeing the occupied territories in their thousands, in cars and carts and on foot. But in a rural East Prussian manor house, the wealthy von Globig family tries to seal itself off from the world. Peter von Globig is twelve, and feigns a cough to get out of his Hitler Youth duties, preferring to sledge behind the house and look at snowflakes through his microscope. His father Eberhard is stationed in Italy - a desk job safe from the front - and his bookish and musical mother Katharina has withdrawn into herself. Instead the house is run by a conservative, frugal aunt, helped by two Ukrainian maids and an energetic Pole. Protected by their privileged lifestyle from the deprivation and chaos around them, and caught in the grip of indecision, they make no preparations to leave, until Katharina's decision to harbour a stranger for the night begins their undoing.

Fin Macleod, now head of security on a privately owned Lewis estate, is charged with investigating a spate of illegal game-hunting taking place on the island. This mission reunites him with Whistler Macaskill - a local poacher, Fin's teenage intimate, and possessor of a long-buried secret. But when this reunion takes a violent, sinister turn and Fin puts together the fractured pieces of the past, he realizes that revealing the truth could destroy the future.

Troya, último refugio de las naves que atraviesan el Egeo y pretenden llegar al mar Negro, mantiene una posición estratégica dentro de la red comercial del Mediterráneo oriental que la convierte en diana de todas las codicias. Seiscientos años más tarde, en el siglo VI aC., Solón, legislador ateniense, viaja de Salamina a Egipto donde tiene conocimiento de la destrucción de la ciudad a través de narraciones de Ulises, las cartas de Corinnos y la historia de un mercader asirio. Grandes alianzas y mayores traiciones se dieron en esta gran epopeya, cruce de mito y realidad.