The Dead Av Mark Oldfield

<p><b>MADRID, 1982.</b> <br>Comandante Leopoldo Guzmán has decided it is time to <b>disappear</b>. Franco is dead and there''s no place in the new order for the former head of the tyrant''s <b>secret police</b>. But first, Guzmán needs money. Luckily, blackmail has always come easily to him – after all, <b>he knows where the bodies are.</b> <br><br><b>And so he should. He buried them.</b> <br><br><b>MADRID, 2010.</b> <br>Fifteen tangled <b>corpses</b> in a disused mine, three bound <b>skeletons</b> in a sealed cellar – a <b>trail of dead</b> that has led forensic investigator Ana María Galíndez to one Comandante Leopoldo Guzmán. <br><br>Guzmán himself <b>disappeared</b> decades ago but she fears his toxic <b>legacy lives on</b>. Her investigation has revealed a dark <b>conspiracy</b> born amid the corruption of Franco''s dictatorship, a conspiracy that after decades in the shadows is finally ready to bloom.</p>