Description
Product ID: | 9781908800671 |
Product Form: | Paperback / softback |
Country of Manufacture: | GB |
Series: | Vengeance of Memory |
Title: | The Sentinel |
Authors: | Author: Mark Oldfield |
Page Count: | 592 |
Subjects: | Thriller / suspense fiction, Thriller / suspense |
Description: | Select Guide Rating A brilliantly plotted crime thriller based in the worlds of Franco's Spain and modern day forensic science. 1936, Badajoz: His unit defeated, his ammunition spent, a boy-soldier flees into the hills pursued by Franco''s shock-troops. He will need more than luck to survive the day. 1953, Madrid: Amid snow-bound streets, the head of Franco''s secret police discovers the web of lies burying his past is unravelling. Even for a man feared throughout the city, the truth is a death sentence. 2009, Las Peñas: Forensic Investigator Ana María Galindez unearths a mass grave in a disused mine. Her investigation will disturb forces that have lain dormant for decades. THE SENTINEL is a spellbinding thriller in a trilogy of rare power and scope that unlocks the dark heart of Spain, weaving past and present together to portray a country still scarred by civil war, still riven by fear and hatred, still plagued by secrets that refuse to die. |
Imprint Name: | Head of Zeus |
Publisher Name: | Bloomsbury Publishing PLC |
Country of Publication: | GB |
Publishing Date: | 2013-04-01 |