“The Spanish Version” is a novel included in the cycle of works about the Soviet intelligence officer Maxim Isaev, the legendary Max Otto von Stirlitz.
The main action takes place in 1938 in Spain, still a republic but already leaning pro-fascist. With the aim of obtaining technical data on the “Messerschmitt,” a Latvian journalist, Jan Palma, who works for Soviet intelligence, is embedded into the highest circles of German intelligence. Only Stirlitz can save Jan from the fascist dungeons…