The power and brutality of Franco’s dictatorship was at its peak in the 1940s. The dictator planned to visit Barcelona in another display of authority over what appeared to be a controlled and surrendered society. But not everyone thinks alike...

The power and brutality of Franco’s dictatorship was at its peak in the 1940s. The dictator planned to visit Barcelona in another display of authority over what appeared to be a controlled and surrendered society. But not everyone thinks alike, and the press silence the explosion of ten bombs in the city during his visit. The last republican inspector, Miquel Mascarell, discovers a conspiracy to kill Franco during his trip. While pursuing the murderer of an old friend and colleague, at the request of the victim’s daughter, Mascarell discovers he can change the course of history. He could stop the assassination. But will Franco’s death bring peace and democracy or another Civil War? In two days the inspector has to solve a murder and a political conspiracy, face all his inner demons and carry the burden of historic responsibility. As in ‘Four Days in May’, ‘Seven Days in July’ and ‘Five Days in October’, the author gives readers another page-turner featuring rigorous period detail and a precise, detective plot.