The Dead
(Paperback)
Publishing Details
The Dead
By (Author) Mark Oldfield
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Head of Zeus
1st May 2018
8th March 2018
United Kingdom
Classifications
General
Fiction
823.92
Physical Properties
Paperback
464
Width 128mm, Height 196mm, Spine 30mm
320g
Description
MADRID, 1982. Comandante Leopoldo Guzmn has decided it is time to disappear. Franco is dead and there's no place in the new order for the former head of the tyrant's secret police. But first, Guzmn needs money. Luckily, blackmail has always come easily to him after all, he knows where the bodies are. And so he should. He buried them. MADRID, 2010. Fifteen tangled corpses in a disused mine, three bound skeletons in a sealed cellar a trail of dead that has led forensic investigator Ana Mara Galndez to one Comandante Leopoldo Guzmn. Guzmn himself disappeared decades ago but she fears his toxic legacy lives on. Her investigation has revealed a dark conspiracy born amid the corruption of Franco's dictatorship, a conspiracy that after decades in the shadows is finally ready to bloom.
Reviews
A well structured exciting thriller, complex enough to tax the reader but easily read. The action is constant and the pace strong right to the end * Nudge Book *
Author Bio
Mark Oldfield was born in Sheffield, and now lives in Kent. He holds a PhD in criminology.
