Max Friedman #3

Plot

Max Friedman is begged to come back to the waning theater of confrontation between the Spanish leftists and Franco's fascists to find a volunteer freedom fighter who has disappeared. Many famous people were involved in or eyewitnesses to the doomed struggle against Franco, including Ernest Hemingway and John Dos Passos. In this cosmopolitan mix looking for the "cause du jour," Friedman tries vainly to stay neutral in his search but is quickly thrown into the maelstrom of intrigue that was the Spanish Civil War. Amidst the ruin of war, Claire, the pretty Belgian reporter who got Max his press credentials, is developing a strong attraction to him, arousing the jealousy of her fellow reporter and would-be-boyfriend, Phil Lester