A gorgeously written, ENGLISH PATIENT-style novel about the real-life romance between the war photographers Robert Capa and Gerda Taro during the Spanish Civil War. Already optioned to be the next film by Michael Mann (PUBLIC ENEMIES, THE INSIDER, MANHUNTER, COLLATERAL). Love, war and photography marked their lives. They were young, anti-Fascist, good-looking, and nonconformist. They had everything in life, and they put everything at risk. They created their own legend and remained faithful to it until the very end. A young German woman named Gerta Pohorylle and a young Hungarian man named Endre Friedmann meet in Paris in 1935. Both Communists, Jewish, exiled, and photographers, they decide to change their names in order to sell their work more easily, and so they become Gerda Taro and Robert Capa.

With these new identities, they travel to Spain and begin to document the Spanish Civil War. Two years later, tragedy will befall them - but until then, theirs is a romance for the ages. Based on the true story of these legendary figures and set to be the next film by award-winning director Michael Mann WAITING FOR ROBERT CAPA is a moving tribute to all journalists and photographers who lose their lives to show us the world's daily transformations. * Optioned by Michael Mann (PUBLIC ENEMIES, THE INSIDER, MANHUNTER, COLLATERAL), with filming due to start Spring 2011. * Tamara Drewe star Gemma Arterton has been cast as Taro and star of The Social Network and The Amazing Spider-Man Andrew Garfield as Capa. * A moving story of love and loss in war, based on the incredible true story of Gerda Taro and Robert Capa, frequently described as the world's greatest war photographer. * Although this novel will be translated from the Spanish, Susana Fortes is fluent in both English and Spanish and is incredibly promotable. * ROBERT CAPA gives us the chance to introduce readers on a large scale to this author, who has won many of Spain's top prizes and whose books are bestsellers in Europe.