The Dead 9781781851715 Paperback

MADRID, 1982.Comandante Leopoldo Guzmn has decided it is time todisappear. Franco is dead and there’s no place in the new order for the former head of the tyrant’ssecret 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 tangledcorpsesin a disused mine, three boundskeletonsin a sealed cellar atrail of deadthat has led forensic investigator Ana Mara Galndez to one Comandante Leopoldo Guzmn.Guzmn himselfdisappeareddecades ago but she fears his toxiclegacy lives on. Her investigation has revealed a darkconspiracyborn amid the corruption of Franco’s dictatorship, a conspiracy that after decades in the shadows is finally ready to bloom.