The Sentinel EPUB

You can't escape the past.

He was the cold steel behind Franco's regime. The fear behind Franco's power.

57 years ago, Comandante Leopoldo Guzm n disappeared without a trace. They know what he did, but they don't know where he's gone.

Madrid, winter 1953: the snow lies thick on the ground and Comandante Guzm n of the Brigada Especial is preparing a dawn raid. His job is to hunt down opponents of Franco's regime and destroy them. Feared by all in Franco's Spain, Guzm n takes what he wants: food, drink, women.

That is about to change. Guzm n is going to find himself on the wrong side of Franco, and on the wrong side of history. It's not the first time Guzm n has been on the wrong side. But there's no one left alive who knows about that... until he gets a message from a dead man...

Madrid, 2009: Ana Mar a Galindez is a forensic scientist investigating a mass grave from the Franco era. Now she is hunting for the hidden ledger of secret policeman Leopoldo Guzm n a man who disappeared without trace in 1953. But there are those who would rather the secrets of Guzm n's ledger stay buried. Galindez' pursuit of the past has revealed a battle for the present...