Pedro Herrasti (Madrid, 1964), a journalism graduate, worked for years in various publications before discovering his vocation as a writer, in which his passion for history returned. To date, he has published El demonio de Lavapiés (2008) and El libro de las tinieblas (2013) in Edhasa, where the bailiff Gonzalo García stars in various adventures in the Madrid of the Golden Age, in addition to Captain Franco (2014), the beginning of the memoirs of Jorge Blanco, which now continues with the magnificent Madrid was a party (2021).