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Winter in Madrid

by C.J. Sansom
Gordon Griffin
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Best-selling British author C.J. Sansom has been awarded the Ellis Peters Historical Dagger Award. Winter in Madrid is set just after the bloody Spanish Civil War, with World War II looming over Europe. Reluctantly, Harry Brett looks for an old schoolmate who's become a person of interest for British intelligence. "A bestseller in the U.K., this moving opus leaves the reader mourning for the Spain that might have been-and the England that maybe never was."-Publishers Weekly

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  • Release date

    March 28, 2008

  • Formats

    • OverDrive Listen audiobook

      • ISBN: 9781449897840
      • File size: 633369 KB
      • Duration: 21:59:31

  • Languages

    • English

  • Reviews

    • AudioFile Magazine
      Set in 1940, during the evocative and uncertain period when the Spanish Civil War is over but WWII terrors persist, WINTER IN MADRID is riveting historical fiction. Harry Brett, who is recovering from recent traumatic experiences at Dunkirk, acts as a reluctant spy for the British Secret Service. He is sent to Madrid to gain the confidence of an old schoolmate who is now a businessman with politically shadowy associations. Sansom's vivid thriller is reminiscent of Zafon's THE SHADOW OF THE WIND. Gordon Griffin's clearly articulated characterizations are effortlessly drawn, and his enigmatic emphasis makes for compelling pacing. Further, his Spanish accents and pronunciations are entirely believable. Overall, Griffin's delivery makes for an exceptionally dramatic listening experience. A.W. (c) AudioFile 2008, Portland, Maine
    • Publisher's Weekly

      September 24, 2007
      The playing fields of Rookwood did little to prepare reluctant spy Harry Brett for the moral no man's land of post–Civil War Spain that awaits him in this cinematic historical thriller from British author Sansom (Sovereign
      ). But those halcyon days have made him one of the few people likely to win the confidence of fellow old boy Sandy Forsyth, now a shady Madrid businessman, Franco associate and object of intense curiosity to British intelligence. Despite his reservations, Brett—whose best friend from Rookwood, Bernie Piper, disappeared in Spain a few years earlier while battling Franco with the International Brigade—accepts the assignment as his duty, and almost as swiftly regrets it. For the Madrid he finds has become a mockery of the vibrant, hopeful place he and Bernie visited during the dawn of the Republic. As in his Matthew Shardlake mystery series set in Tudor London, Sansom deftly plots his politically charged tale for maximal suspense, all the way up to its stunning conclusion. A bestseller in the U.K., this moving opus leaves the reader mourning for the Spain that might have been—and the England that maybe never was.

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  • OverDrive Listen audiobook

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  • English

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