Venice, the romantic, sinking inexorably. Venice, there are also storms, high tides, floods, fog, and canals overgrown with algae and their attendant odor. Venice, they are also the Venetians who make their city and its carnival lies a storm, a masquerade, a continual feast promiscuous. Venice, it is also these art collections which counterfeiters, critics and museum curators argue paternity. Was it to avenge the lagoon city dresses in skimpy little below, mocks its artistic treasures, claims the right to destroy its inhabitants? Juan Manuel de Prada makes fly to Venice giving the central role of his novel about art forgers, including chronic "The Tempest" by the Italian painter Giorgione is the center of all desires, intellectual, financial and loving. On the tone of confidence, using the metaphor as the main line style, the author makes and breaks the life of Alejandro Ballesteros, young critic, involuntary witness to a murder, and a cohort of more gothic characters each the others (?) love inspector stepmother depraved, orphaned or troubled troubling, landlady murders ... The result is a story that will captivate you and will bewitch you ... unless you have already captured Venice in his nets ...