The exile - Mark Oldfield

San Sebastian, 1954: Comandante Guzmn, Franco's one-time favourite secret policeman is out of favour and exiled to the Basque country. Guzmn was last here during the war, heading a platoon of bloodthirsty irregulars. He'd rather forget that. But, up in the hills, he'll find he hasn't been forgotten at all.

Madrid, 2010: Forensic Investigator Ana Mara Galindez has been sent to the Basque country, where three skeletons have been found in a sealed cellar. In the debris surrounding them she finds a scimitar, stamped with a name: Capitn Leopoldo Guzmn.

Guzmn's name is the key to unlocking Spain's darkest secrets. But, as Galindez will discover, Guzmn's name is also a death sentence.