This highly-charged, fast-moving saga vividly depicts war-time Spain. A traumatised Dunkirk veteran is recruited by the British to spy on a former school friend, now a shady businessman in Madrid, whose girlfriend is secretly searching for her former lover who vanished during the Civil War. The characters might be a bit stereotypical but the author does not spare us or them from the harshness of reality or from facing unpleasant truths. A great film perhaps?
(Jenny Baker - bwl 38 February 2007 ) |
