I Was the Spy Who Loved El Comandante
Original title: Yo fui la espía que amó al Comandante
Marita Lorenz

I Was the Spy Who Loved El Comandante

Original title: Yo fui la espía que amó al Comandante

Marita Lorenz

Synopsis:

Marita Lorenz was born in Germany in the middle of August 1939. During the war she moved to a concentration camp and she survived. A few days after the liberation, at seven years old, she was raped by a sergeant in the American army of occupation. When she was 19, she met Fidel Castro in Havana. She became his lover. She got pregnant. In Cuba she was drugged and subjected to abortion but she believes that her son André is still alive. With the encouragement of the FBI and the CIA, she became a spy and she was sent to Havana to assassinate Fidel Castro. She didn’t fail like so many others later on, she simply couldn’t do it.

Highlights I Was the Spy Who Loved El Comandante

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What happens when a spy falls in love with the man she must kill?

Rights sold

France (Éditions First), Italy (Sperling & Kupfer), Portugal (Planeta Manuscrito), Russia (Eskmo Publishing), UK (Ebury Press), USA (Pegasus Publishing).

International editions

Technical data

Publishing date: | 288 pages | ISBN: 978-84-9942-421-7 | Imprint: Ediciones Península