The Strait of Lost Memories

In the fictional Republic of New Aurania, a catastrophic pipeline rupture in the Aurelian Strait leaves eighteen dead. Energy executive Marcus Drax is convicted but agrees to a secretive neuroscientific experiment—Project Lethe—that erases his criminal memories. Released as Martin Cross, he unknowingly falls in love with Lena Halström, the daughter of a firefighter who perished in the disaster. As a cynical private detective, Leopold Voss, digs into the bioethical conspiracy, the lovers are drawn into a labyrinth of state secrets, corporate greed, and the haunting question of whether a man without memory can bear guilt. A hard-boiled tale of redemption and betrayal inspired by the dark political gastronomy of Manuel Vázquez Montalbán.