Led by a German orphan looking for the truth after his father death and a Jewish-American photographer, it is inspired by a true story related to the Holocaust and the rise of Nazism.
When the torrent subsides, the leader of the survivors gratefully offers the captain a strange-looking emblem made of gold and diamonds, in exchange for safe passage to the coast of Portugal instead of Spain.
He does not sell it, but the would-be buyer reveals an astounding story behind that mysterious object: it holds the key to Paul Reiner’s lifelong quest... Munich, 1919.
But one night, Paul accidentally learns that his father didn't die before the First World War commanding a ship in the German colonies, as he had always been told.
The Traitor's Emblem it is inspired by a real-life story that Gómez-Jurado heard first-hand from a bookseller named Juan Carlos González.
Intrigued, Gómez-Jurado began a journey of research that took him across four countries and led him to discover that it was a Masonic emblem worth $1 million that Hitler had made to reward a high-level Nazi who infiltrated the Freemasons.
The real surprise came when we broke the sealed envelope that kept the name of the author, and we discovered that such a complex, brilliant and dark story was written by a 30-year-old man.”