Winter in Madrid: A Novel - Softcover

"It comes as no surprise to learn that Sansom's novel spent month after month on London's bestseller lists."
-The Philadelphia Inquirer

"There are touches of Graham Greene; Hemingway's here, too. . . . But Sansom transfigures his sources into a moral universe very much his own."
-The Independent (U.K.)

"Sansom [proves] real noir is best when lit with flashes of wit."
-Publishers Weekly

"Sansom can lay claim to a place among the best distinguished of modern historical novelists."
-P. D. James

In the aftermath of the Spanish Civil War, reluctant British Secret Service spy Harry Brett witnesses General Franco's ambivalence about maintaining neutrality and investigates a shadowy Madrid businessman whose girlfriend would prevent a former lover from joining the communist cause. Reprint.