THE EXILE (VENGEANCE OF MEMORY 2)

1954: Comandante Guzmán is out of favour and in exile. Franco''s one-time favourite secret policeman has been posted to the Basque country, a desolate backwater - in his eyes - of simmering nationalism, unlikely alliances and ancient vendettas. Guzmán was last here during the war, at the head of a platoon of bloodthirsty Moorish irregulars. Personally, he''d rather forget all that - but up in the hills, he''ll find that he hasn''t been forgotten at all. 2010, Madrid: Forensic Investigator Ana María Galindez has been sent to the Basque country where, sealed in the cellar of a ruined building are three skeletons, each bound to a chair, each savagely hacked to death. In the debris surrounding them, a scimitar, stamped with a name: Capitán Leopoldo Guzmán. Guzmán is the key that will unlock Spain''s darkest secrets. Guzmán''s name, she''ll discover, is a death sentence.