El mal de Corcira

A middle-aged man appears naked and brutally murdered on a lonely beach in Formentera. According to several testimonies collected by the Civil Guard of the islands, in the previous days he had been seen in the company of different young people in gay venues in Ibiza. When his bosses call Bevilacqua to take care of the investigation and inform him of the peculiarity of the dead man, a Basque citizen convicted at the time of collaboration with ETA, the second lieutenant will understand that this is no longer a case. To try to clarify the crime, and after investigating on the ground, Bevilacqua will have to move with his team to Guipúzcoa, the place of residence of the deceased, to an area that he knows well for his involvement almost thirty years ago in the fight against terrorism. There, he must overcome mistrust of the victim's environment and, above all, deal with his own ghosts of the past, with what he did and what he did not do in a "war" between fellow citizens, such as the one that occurred twenty-five centuries ago in Corcira -today Corfu- and that Thucydides described in all its harshness. Those ghosts will lead you to an uncomfortable question that as a human being and as a criminal investigator inexcusably concerns you: to what extent do we conform to what we fight against? To what extent do we become what we fight against? The tenth case of Bevilacqua and Chamorro leads them to solve a crime that transports the second lieutenant to his past in the fight against terrorism in the Basque Country.