Madrid 1939.
Carlos Tejada Alonso y Le n is a Sergeant in the Guardia Civil, a rank rare for a man not yet thirty, but Tejada is an unusual recruit.
The bitter civil war between the Nationalists and the Republicans has interrupted his legal studies in Salamanca.
Second son of a conservative Southern family of landowners, he is an enthusiast for the Catholic Franquista cause, a dedicated, and now triumphant, Nationalist.
This war has drawn international attention.
In a dress rehearsal for .
Soho Crime Death of a nationalist, paperback/rebecca pawel
