The Alligator's Trap

An elderly Spaniard ekes out an existence managing the reception desk in a seedy hotel in Toronto. Another elderly Spaniard checks in, triggering a flood of memories, back to the days when both men were activists in a revolutionary cell in Barcelona, days of armed resistence, action and adventure, romance and betrayal . . .

Antonio Soler was born in Málaga in 1956. His writing career began in 1992 with the publication of a collection of short stories and a novella. Since then, he has published more than a dozen novels, many of them award-winning. This is the third of his novels to be translated into English, following Sur and Soldiers in the Fog, both published in 2023.