More has been written about Lorca than about any other Spanish writer except Cervantes. In an attempt to explain when, how and why one of the most important poets of the 20th century was murdered, Ian Gibson's exhaustive research tries to uncover the truth about one of Spain's Civil War's biggest mysteries - the death by shooting of Federico García Lorca by Nationalist thugs. Gibson's biography of Lorca is currently the front-runner for the definitive Lorca biography.