by C. J. Sansom · Pan Books · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780330411981
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«Winter in Madrid» is the historical spy novel by C. J. Sansom, published by Pan Books in paperback (549 pages, in English).
It is 1940 and the Civil War is over: Madrid lies in ruins, threatened by hunger and by the possibility that Franco will bring Spain into World War II. Harry Brett, a Dunkirk veteran, reluctantly agrees to spy for the British secret service and must win the trust of his old school friend, the businessman Sandy Forsyth. At the same time, former Red Cross nurse Barbara Clare searches for her former lover, a communist brigadier who disappeared at Jarama. Espionage, loyalties and impossible decisions intersect in this intrigue.
The edition was released on October 6, 2006. The author, C. J. Sansom, holds a doctorate in history and also wrote the Shardlake series.
For adult readers of historical and spy fiction, in an English edition, interested in World War II and the Spanish postwar period.
Christopher John Sansom was a British writer of historical crime novels, best known for his Matthew Shardlake series. He also wrote the spy novel Winter in Madrid and the alternative history novel Dominion. He won numerous book awards, including the 2005 Ellis Peters Historical Dagger, the Sidewise Award for Alternate History in 2013 and the Cartier Diamond Dagger in 2022. Shardlake, a television series based on Sansom's novel Dissolution, started streaming on Disney+ less than a week after his death.
