by Ignacio Martínez de Pisón · Seix Barral · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788432233678
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«Filek: El estafador que engañó a Franco» is the essay by Ignacio Martínez de Pisón, published by Seix Barral in paperback (288 pages, in Spanish).
Albert von Filek, an Austrian chemist, convinces Franco's regime that he has invented a synthetic fuel capable of turning the Spain of 1939 into an oil power. The author reconstructs his real biography, from small-time swindler to the triumph that precedes his downfall, when a chemical analysis reveals the deception.
It was published on 5 April 2018 in the Biblioteca Breve collection by Seix Barral. Albert von Filek died in Hamburg in 1952.
For readers interested in twentieth-century Spanish history, documentary research and real cases of fraud.
Ignacio Martínez de Pisón is a Spanish writer. He is the author of more than a dozen books, among which the most notable are:El día de mañana, La buena reputación
