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In the history of Spain there are abundant gaps and events to unravel. Much has been written about the supposed disaster of the so-called Invincible Armada, when in reality there was another fleet, in this case British, which did fail miserably in its assault on the Spanish coasts, back in 1589. That fiasco led to Isabel I from England to punish the privateer Drake, responsible for the defeat, with the prohibition of embarking for several years. However, Drake devised during this time an ambitious plan aimed at winning the war against Spain and finally ending her rule in America. His intention was to attack the coast of Panama at the narrowest point of the isthmus, near the city of Nombre de Dios, which, according to his information, was poorly protected. Once the owner of Nombre de Dios, the privateer proposed to initiate a rapid advance south to seize the city of Panama, located on the Pacific coast. With that he did not intend only to collect valuable loot, but to establish a colony whose extension would include a wide strip of land that would unite these two populations and that would control the trade between the two largest oceans of the world. In this splendid historical novel, Juan Pérez-Foncea sheds light on this crucial issue.