Winter in Madrid - Hardcover

Sansom, C.J.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1405005467 ISBN 13: 9781405005463

Publisher: Macmillan, 2006

Synopsis

Book by Sansom , C J

About this title

About the Author:

C. J. Sansom was a lawyer who now writes full time. He is the author of Dissolution, Dark Fire, and Sovereign in the Matthew Shardlake series.

From Publishers Weekly:

The playing fields of Rookwood did little to prepare reluctant spy Harry Brett for the moral no man's land of post–Civil War Spain that awaits him in this cinematic historical thriller from British author Sansom (Sovereign). But those halcyon days have made him one of the few people likely to win the confidence of fellow old boy Sandy Forsyth, now a shady Madrid businessman, Franco associate and object of intense curiosity to British intelligence. Despite his reservations, Brett—whose best friend from Rookwood, Bernie Piper, disappeared in Spain a few years earlier while battling Franco with the International Brigade—accepts the assignment as his duty, and almost as swiftly regrets it. For the Madrid he finds has become a mockery of the vibrant, hopeful place he and Bernie visited during the dawn of the Republic. As in his Matthew Shardlake mystery series set in Tudor London, Sansom deftly plots his politically charged tale for maximal suspense, all the way up to its stunning conclusion. A bestseller in the U.K., this moving opus leaves the reader mourning for the Spain that might have been—and the England that maybe never was. (Jan.)
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About this edition

• Publisher: Macmillan
• Publication date: 2006
• ISBN 10: 1405005467
• ISBN 13: 9781405005463
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 537