1998, Seville. Summer. An elderly priest is found murdered in horrific circumstances; Inspector Velasquez assumes at first a junkie is on the loose. But then a second man of the cloth shows up in the Guadalquivir River, followed by a Russian gangster, and Velazquez realizes he has a puzzle of major proportions on his hands. Are they politically motivated ? Are the three murders linked? And if so, how? His boss, Comisario Alonso, is breathing down his neck and wanting answers, fast. And then danger begins to creep a little too close to home ...In a bullfight, the bull sometimes wins. The question is, who is the bull? Velasquez, or the murderer?