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Near Fine in Near Fine jacket. Remainder 1st edition with complete number line beginning with 1. Fine in fine dust jacket, not price clipped, in protective mylar cover. Tiniest reminder dot at bottom of pages. 1939 Spain. "The immediate aftermath of the Spanish Civil War provides the bleak setting for Pawel's stirring first novel. Madrid in 1939 is filled with bomb craters, desecrated churches and nearly abandoned streets, while black markets are just about the only markets with anything to sell. The hatreds and atrocities shared by the Nationalists (supported by the fascists) and the Republicans (supported by the Communists) still simmer and erupt in sporadic violence. The Guardia Civil has the responsibility to maintain authority-and their enthusiasm and ruthlessness for enforcing order terrorizes the citizens. The intertwined fates of Sergeant Tejada Alonzo y Leon of the Guardia Civil and that of Gonzalo Llorente, a wounded Republican in hiding, are handled with unusual skill and subtlety. When Tejada arrives at the scene where a murdered comrade lies, he leaps to a conclusion about the killer's identity. He must follow a tortuous path to find the real killer and, ultimately, redemption. Gonzalo has lost his love as well as his hope for any kind of future. His one aim is for a small measure of vengeance before he dies. Pawel is unsparing in her depiction of the casual brutalities spawned by the war, but also offers evidence of the power of little civilities and kindnesses in a novel that easily transcends the formulaic crime story."--Publishers Weekly.
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New York. 2003. February 2003. Soho Press. 1st American Edition. Very Good in Dustjacket. Remainder Mark. 1569473048. 263 pages. hardcover. Author photo credit: (c)Michael A. Pawel. Jacket design: Cheryl L. Cipriani/Brooklyn Bauhaus. Jacket photo credits: top: (c)Corbis. bottom (c)W Eugene Smith, courtesy of Time Pixs. keywords: Mystery Spain America Women Spanish Civil War. FROM THE PUBLISHER-Madrid, 1939. Carlos Tejada Alonso y Leon is a sergeant in the Guardia Civil, a rank rarely attained by a man not yet thirty, but Tejada is an unusual recruit. Second son of a conservative Southern family of landowners, he is an enthusiast for the Catholic Franquista cause, a dedicated, and now triumphant, Nationalist. This war has drawn international attention. In a dress rehearsal for World War II, fascist regimes in Germany and Italy have supported the Nationalists, while communists and socialists have come to the aid of the Republicans. Atrocities have devastated both sides. It is at this moment, when the Republicans have surrendered, and the Guardia Civil has begun to impose order in the ruins of Madrid, that Tejada finds the body of his best friend, a hero of the siege of Toledo, shot to death on a street named Amor de Dios. Naturally, a Red is suspected. And it is easy for Tejada to assume that the woman he sees kneeling over the body, is the killer. But later on, when his doubts are aroused, he cannot help seeking justice. inventory #35328.
