Los silenciados

The first was Javier, pulled from the waters of the Río de la Plata with his hands tied behind his back with two turns of wire. Al Turco and Mariano found them inside a damaged car on the side of Carretera Norte with a hole in the back of their necks the size of a walnut. Then it was the turn of the others: Otilio, Mariano, Gustavo... We are in Argentina, in 1978, under the military dictatorship of Jorge Rafael Videla, and something has aroused the anger of the armed forces towards the players of the La Liga rugby team. Silver. Each game of the small club is a challenge to authority, each tribute to the victims a provocation directed at power, which responds with more blood. However, the team, increasingly decimated, continues to win its games. This extraordinary novel is based on the testimony of the only member of the La Plata rugby team who survived the dirty war in Argentina, Raúl Barandiarán, of Basque origin.