El Filibusterismo (Continuación del Noli me tángere)

by José Rizal

"El Filibusterismo (Continuación del Noli me tángere)" by José Rizal is a novel first published in 1891. Thirteen years after his presumed death, Crisóstomo Ibarra returns to the Philippines under a new identity—Simoun, a wealthy jeweler bent on vengeance. Abandoning his earlier reformist ideals, he now plots to provoke revolution through calculated chaos. As Simoun maneuvers through colonial society, accumulating weapons and conspirators, his dark plan builds toward a single catastrophic night that will decide the fate of many.