Dimitry (Paperback)

Some men cross the world to disappear. Dimitry crossed it to find a pair of eyes.

He is a spy without a flag, without a country, without a licence to kill - a grey man who works in the shadows so that the powerful never lay a hand on the switch of the world. His trade is patents and plagiarism, dead drops and freezing parks, riddles hidden in the music of dead composers. And in the middle of it all he guards the most dangerous object on the planet: a device the size of a thumb, able to plunge whole continents into darkness - hidden, of all places, inside a wedding cake in the window of a neighbourhood pastelería in Bolivia.

Because there, behind the counter, is Kassandra: a Russian émigrée who lost her whole world and rebuilt it with flour and sugar, and who has no idea that the man who claims to sell turbines is a ghost trained to leave no trace.

From the snow of Berlin's Tiergarten to the tomb of Bach in Leipzig, from Vienna to Bangkok to the flooded canals of Cambodia, Dimitry follows a trail of ciphers, betrayals and impossible choices - while a faceless traitor walks at his side and everything he loves hangs by a thread.

A literary spy thriller and a love story in equal measure, Dimitry - A Sweet Conspiracy is a novel of codes, keys and conspiracies. But in the end, what matters is not what a man hides - it is that for which he chooses to return.

Roberto Delucchi is a Chilean-Bolivian novelist and international engineering consultant. Two decades of projects across Latin America and the Middle East feed his dystopian, environmentally charged fiction - including Socavón and Smog - where technical precision meets a deep human sensibility.