El último linchamiento

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More than eighty years after the events, the last lynching narrates in detail and in a novel way the death in Cartagena on July 19, 1936 the death of Juan Vicente Fernandez, better known as El Chipé. From his birth, through his childhood, his youth and his maturity, the novel by Antonio Casado Mena accompanies Chipé, throughout his life, reviewing his relationships, his first escapades with crime and violence, his facet as pimp, his time in the Army or his various entrances and exits from prison. A portrait of manners of all the episodes that led to the ferocity of his death and the cruelty with his corpse. An event that still lingers in the memory of Cartagena. The last lynching is also the History of Spain in the period that serves as a story: the early twentieth century, the War of Morocco, the mandate of Primo de Rivera, the exile of Alfonso XIII, the Second Republic, the popular frontist revolution and the military uprising -- Page 4 of cover.