The intertwined stories of corrupt Spanish politician Luis Roldan, and the arms dealer Francsico Paesa who first helped then robbed him, are truly amazing, and their complicated twists are smartly depicted in this fictionalised account of their lives. I don't know enough about the truth to know where liberties have been taken; but the story is accurate enough so that the real life news broadcasts have been spliced in make perfect sense. But the story works well as fiction in its own right, as we see first Roldan, and then Paesa and his co-conspirators, pass from smug assurance to increasing paranoia and fear as their misdeeds threaten to catch up with them. If you're not Spanish, it's both fascinating and entertaining. If you are, it might rouse you more to anger.
Review of Smoke & Mirrors
