Falcó is a 2016 spy novel by the Spanish writer Arturo Pérez-Reverte.

[1][2][3][4] Lorenzo Falcó is 37 years old and described as an "elegant thug".

[1] He has no ideology and is recruited as an intelligence operative for the Nationalist faction during the Spanish Civil War.

He is sent on a mission to infiltrate the Republicans and rescue José Antonio Primo de Rivera from prison in Alicante.

Falcó is the first entry in a trilogy of spy novels set during the Spanish Civil War.