days ago he landed in Madrid and seems to have literally found a gold mine there. Like an Eric Ambler character, Harry is an innocent embroiled in a spy scheme that baffles and unsettles him, but as a loyal if naïve British subject he dutifully goes about his business, spying on an old public school friend. Here’s another hero named Harry, this Harry Brett, who in some ways resembles Goddard’s Harry Barnett. See also Download Kings Of Underworld By C.M. Even the short scene in Burgos, where I just stopped on a weekend trip, brought back memories. Although by my time Spain had largely recovered from the ravages of civil war, Sansom’s descriptions brought me back to my own experiences of the Franco government’s oppression.

I was shocked to realize that the plot of this novel, set in 1940, is closer to 1972 than it is to where I am in Spain today. I spent six weeks in Madrid in 1972, when Franco was still in power and the hateful Civil Guard was still omnipresent.

It’s like traveling to Madrid in a time machine in 1940, when Franco won the Spanish Civil War and imposed a dictatorship on the country that was to last for 35 years. Winter In Madrid Mirror Book Pdf DownloadĬJ Sansom is a master of the historical novel, and like his Matthew Shardlake books, this book succeeds in completely immersing you in another time and place. Sansom has a remarkable grasp of story development and the profound ramifications of impossible choices. Through this dangerous intrigue, the captivating story of C.J.

Winter in Madrid by C.J. Sansom