by C.J. Sansom · De Fontein · tapa blanda · ISBN 9789026192395
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«Winter in Madrid» is the historical novel by C. J. Sansom, published by De Fontein in paperback (510 pages, in Dutch).
In the autumn of 1940, veteran Harry Brett is recruited by the British secret service to investigate his former schoolmate Sandy Forsyth in postwar Madrid. There he meets Barbara Clare, who is searching for her former lover, a brigadist who disappeared after fighting fascism with the International Brigades.
Dutch translation by Ineke van Bronswijk; the novel was originally published in English in 2006.
For readers of historical and spy fiction set during the Spanish Civil War and the Second World War.
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.
