Description
Through the winter streets of Madrid, ranks of mourners eight deep make their way towards the Palace where the dead Caudillo of Spain, General Francisco Franco, lies in state. An elderly man, in fear for his life, tries to lose himself in the crowd, to shake off the sinister figures who have shadowed him since he first became involved with the tapes of the late Juan Perรณn.
Locked in the vault of the Banco de la Victoria de los Angeles in Madrid, the tapes contain sensational revelations-not only about the idolised Evita but about the extent of Argentina's links with the Nazis, and the whereabouts of the world's most wanted war criminal, Martin Bormann. These are secrets which could destroy the powerful Perรณn myth in Argentina and shake the world. But are the tapes genuine or an elaborate hoax? Called in to help authenticate them, Roberto Fairrie, Perรณn expert and lifelong opponent of fascism, finds himself trapped by machinations of his own in a frightening spiral of conspiracy, deceit and violent death. As British journalists, Spanish aristocrats, U.S. entrepreneurs, a glamorous Czech refugee and the C.I.A. try by any means to manipulate him, Fairrie learns he is the target for a Nazi-trained killer hired to protect the most closely guarded secrets of the Fourth Reich.
ISBN:9780434623907
