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Title: The Dead
Subtitle: Vengeance of Memory, Book 3
Author: Mark Oldfield
Narrator: Nigel Antony
Format: Unabridged
Length: 14 hrs and 37 mins
Language: English
Release date: 09-12-17
Publisher: Audible Studios
Genres: Mysteries & Thrillers, Suspense
Publisher's Summary:
Madrid, 1982. The dictator is dead, and Guzmán is finally back in the capital.
Years of bitter exile in the provinces doing the dirty work for the sinister head of military intelligence have left their mark on the Comandante.
He wants out. But he needs money first...and what better way to get it than blackmail? After all, he knows better than anyone where all the bodies are buried.
Members Reviews:
An OK read
A generally OK read if you have read the previous books, however, again it jumps around too much between timelines and is hard to follow unless you can read a large amount at once.
but I recommend the first two just for the joy
The Dead is a long-awaited book for me â I read The Sentinel and The Exile as soon as they were released, so I pounced on this as well. The Dead is the final in the trilogy of Franco-lover Guzman and the modern-day investigator Ana Maria Galindez, who is literally about to have history come back to bite her.
The Dead moves at such a fast pace you need to make sure you are stable in your seat. You could read The Dead on its own, but I recommend the first two just for the joy. The book lives is in three time periods; 2010, where Galindez is looking for Guzman, whom she has been tracking after forensic evidence put him in the centre of multiple murders and torturing incidents during the Franco regime. The book keeps jumping around, entering 1982, where Guzman runs the Brigada Especial; Franco is dead and the âgloryâ days of being able to be a vicious fascist is over. Spain is concreting over its past and wants democracy to work. Guzman has one last mission, and wants to end his enemies. What I love is the little flashbacks to 1965, and Inspector Villanuevo who lives in tiny Llanto del Moro. A policeman living under Franco is bound to get caught up in something nasty.
Even with three time periods, the storyline gallops along, the flashbacks filling in details as Galindez tracks Guzman to the bitter ended. The reality of life under Franco and those fragile years post-death swaps out to Spain 2010, not exactly a prosperous time, but at least free. Those who were murdered in Francoâs name, those who are the âdisappearedâ and the selling of babies all comes back to haunt Spain and Guzman in his final stand.
In Oldfieldâs version, the story is more important than history, so it can appeal to a wide range. The series is neatly tied up and at least some of Spainâs ghost are laid to rest. Reading this made me want to dump all my own work and write another Spanish historical fiction immediately.
Four Stars
Confusing and exciting!
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Title: The Dead
Subtitle: Vengeance of Memory, Book 3
Author: Mark Oldfield
Narrator: Nigel Antony
Format: Unabridged
Length: 14 hrs and 37 mins
Language: English
Release date: 09-12-17
Publisher: Audible Studios
Genres: Mysteries & Thrillers, Suspense
Publisher's Summary:
Madrid, 1982. The dictator is dead, and Guzmán is finally back in the capital.
Years of bitter exile in the provinces doing the dirty work for the sinister head of military intelligence have left their mark on the Comandante.
He wants out. But he needs money first...and what better way to get it than blackmail? After all, he knows better than anyone where all the bodies are buried.
Members Reviews:
An OK read
A generally OK read if you have read the previous books, however, again it jumps around too much between timelines and is hard to follow unless you can read a large amount at once.
but I recommend the first two just for the joy
The Dead is a long-awaited book for me â I read The Sentinel and The Exile as soon as they were released, so I pounced on this as well. The Dead is the final in the trilogy of Franco-lover Guzman and the modern-day investigator Ana Maria Galindez, who is literally about to have history come back to bite her.
The Dead moves at such a fast pace you need to make sure you are stable in your seat. You could read The Dead on its own, but I recommend the first two just for the joy. The book lives is in three time periods; 2010, where Galindez is looking for Guzman, whom she has been tracking after forensic evidence put him in the centre of multiple murders and torturing incidents during the Franco regime. The book keeps jumping around, entering 1982, where Guzman runs the Brigada Especial; Franco is dead and the âgloryâ days of being able to be a vicious fascist is over. Spain is concreting over its past and wants democracy to work. Guzman has one last mission, and wants to end his enemies. What I love is the little flashbacks to 1965, and Inspector Villanuevo who lives in tiny Llanto del Moro. A policeman living under Franco is bound to get caught up in something nasty.
Even with three time periods, the storyline gallops along, the flashbacks filling in details as Galindez tracks Guzman to the bitter ended. The reality of life under Franco and those fragile years post-death swaps out to Spain 2010, not exactly a prosperous time, but at least free. Those who were murdered in Francoâs name, those who are the âdisappearedâ and the selling of babies all comes back to haunt Spain and Guzman in his final stand.
In Oldfieldâs version, the story is more important than history, so it can appeal to a wide range. The series is neatly tied up and at least some of Spainâs ghost are laid to rest. Reading this made me want to dump all my own work and write another Spanish historical fiction immediately.
Four Stars
Confusing and exciting!