On 10 November 1942, at the height of World War II, Heinz August Lüning, the only German spy sentenced to death in Latin America, was executed in the pits of the Castillo del Príncipe in Havana, Cuba.
The Other Spy is neither a conventional historical novel nor a biographical chronicle, but a fictionalized story based on real events. The plot is set in the vibrant and turbulent city of Havana, which at the time had been transformed into a veritable nest of spies. At the epicentre of this web of intrigue, agents from the FBI, MI6 and SIEA, along with figures such as US Ambassador Spruille Braden, the famous Ernest Hemingway and even Meyer Lansky, embark on a hunt for Nazi spies, real or imagined.
The book unravels the dark labyrinths that marked the last years of the life of Abwehr agent A-3779, known by his code name: Enrique Augusto Luni. During those years, the secret services of Nazi Germany, the United States and Cuba deliberately manipulated events, distorting the reason behind Lüning being sent to Cuba.
With The Other Spy, H. L. Guerra offers us an absorbing, fast-paced thriller that takes us to Havana, Hamburg, Berlin, New York, The Bermuda Islands, Barcelona and Tangiers. The work reveals the workings of a murky political plot that the passage of time has tried to erase and that the secret services have masked in order to hide its true history.
