has to do with trotsky's affair with freida. most of you have heard about this if you haven't read it maybe you saw the movie i think it was 2000 more, the movie freida that dwelt on this. the myth that dies hard is not that the affair took place because of course it did and i describe the circumstances in my book in fact the myth is freida's husband, diego rivera, later found out about it and this led him to break off his relationship with trotsky. that is a method. that's the first one. in the second has to do with a certain ice pick and i should say spoiler alert the trotsky does not do well at the end of this book. the book focuses, as mcginn said on the last years of trotsky's life in mexico, so 1937 to 1940. with flashbacks to pivotal moments in his earlier career as young revolutionary, great orator of the russian revolution in 1917, creator and leader of the red army and then of course vanquished rival stalin but let's start with diego. it was thanks to diego rivera, the great painter the trotsky landed in mexico. stalin