You can't escape the past.
He was the cold steel behind Franco's regime. The fear behind
Franco's power.
57 years ago, Comandante Leopoldo Guzmán disappeared without a
trace. They know what he did, but they don't know where he's gone
Madrid, winter 1953: the snow lies thick on the ground and
Comandante Guzmán of the Brigada Especial is preparing a dawn raid.
His job is to hunt down opponents of Franco's regime and destroy
them. Feared by all in Franco's Spain, Guzmán takes what he wants:
food, drink, women.
That is about to change. Guzmán is going to find himself on the
wrong side of Franco, and on the wrong side of history. It's not the
first time Guzmán has been on the wrong side. But there's no one
left alive who knows about that... until he gets a message from a
dead man...
Madrid, 2009: Ana María Galindez is a forensic scientist
investigating a mass grave from the Franco era. Now she is hunting
for the hidden ledger of secret policeman Leopoldo Guzmán - a man
who disappeared without trace in 1953. But there are those who would
rather the secrets of Guzmán's ledger stay buried. Galindez' pursuit
of the past has revealed a battle for the present...
Mark Oldfield was born in Sheffield, but now lives in Kent. He holds
a PhD in criminology.
