Berlin, 1924. Corto Maltese walks through a modernizing city.
His old friend Jeremiah Steiner is murdered.
Furious, shaken, sad, he begins to look for who could have committed such an act.
But Berlin at night is not his cup of tea.
Corto is like a fish out of water.
He, the romantic sailor with the earring, who wears an enigmatic smile in all circumstances, is far from the sea and the hidden treasures that fired the imagination of travel writers at the end of the 19th century.
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Here, no sideburns shivering in the wind, nor caps and peacoats whipped by the spray.
By the will of the Spanish tandem Juan Diaz Canales-Ruben Pellejero, this vengeful Corto, representative in spite of himself of the world of yesterday, finds himself embroiled in a dark investigation where esotericism and the cabal catch up with the son of the "Nina of Gibraltar". who once cut his hand with a razor to give himself a line of luck worthy of the name.
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