by C. J. Sansom · Macmillan · tapa dura · ISBN 9781405005463
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«Winter in Madrid» is the historical spy novel by C. J. Sansom, published by Macmillan in hardcover (537 pages, in English).
In 1940, after the Civil War, Madrid is ruined and hungry: Harry Brett, a Dunkirk veteran, returns to Spain as a British spy. He must win the trust of Sandy Forsyth, a former schoolmate turned shady businessman. Red Cross nurse Barbara Clare searches for her lover, a brigadier missing at Jarama.
First hardcover edition, published on January 6, 2006; contains 537 pages and is in English. ISBN 9781405005463.
For adult readers of historical fiction, thriller and espionage, with an interest in the Spanish Civil War, the postwar period and World War II.
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.
