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July, 1936. As General Franco's Nationalists march on Madrid in the early stages of the Spanish Civil War, the Republican government authorises the evacuation of the countries gold reserves. 7900 crates of gold leave Cartagena for Russia - only 7800 arrive. The hundred missing boxes, if found today, would be worth over $160 million...June, 2004. Jack Hadley is a British academic and visiting professor at the University of Salamanca in Spain. When police are called to a particularly raucous late night party in his rooms he is arrested and faces prison, disgrace, and the end of his career. Until the Spanish Director of National Intelligence offers him a surprising reprieve. He asks Hadley to travel to Cuba to interview 'The Aztec', Jesus Florin. A left-wing hero in the Americas, Florin once fought to defend Madrid from Franco and Stalingrad from Hitler. Hadley is writing a book about the Battle for Madrid and Florin is one of the few surviving combatants - but the real reason for the interviews is that the Spanish spy chief believes that Florin knows the location of the missing gold. At their third meeting, Florin hands Hadley a bundle of typed sheets - 'This may answer some of your questions about the fight for Madrid' - and, cryptically, a 1907 Gold Sovereign. Switching between Florin's past and 2004 - the year Al Qaeda blew up a train in Madrid, Jose Luis Rodrigues Zapatero became Prime Minister of Spain and Simon Mann's mercenaries tried to take over the former Spanish colony of Equatorial Guinea - The Aztec is a gripping international thriller full of double agents and double dealing, where no-one seems to be sure who's pulling the strings...
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Bill Vidal was born in Argentina and educated in England. He lived and worked in the USA, South America, the Middle East, South East Asia and Europe before settling with his wife and twin children in Kent. The Clayton Account is his first novel.
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