by Jaime Rocha · Doble Identidad · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788417416416
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«Operación El Dorado Canyon» is the historical spy novel by Jaime Rocha, published by Doble Identidad in paperback (252 pages, in Spanish).
After the wave of attacks against Western interests attributed to Muammar al-Gaddafi, Ronald Reagan orders the execution of Operation El Dorado Canyon in 1986. Without military support from NATO countries, the CIA requests help from Spain, and the CESID sends an agent to Libya to locate the dictator; that agent ends up becoming the only source of information on the ground. The book is signed by the protagonist himself, who waited thirty years to tell the story.
The author, Jaime Rocha (Larache, 1942), was a navy captain and member of the Spanish intelligence service since 1979. The work received the gold medal for best historical fiction novel at the 2021 International Latino Book Awards.
Recommended for readers interested in real espionage, intelligence services, and little-known episodes of the Cold War narrated by a direct witness.
