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 April 5, 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
