Winter in Madrid

Sansom adroitly draws the disparate strands of his ambitious saga together. His non-pareil evocations of time and place anchor his characters with satisfying precisionIndependent

An unsentimental and utterly fascinating portrait of Spain in 1940 . . . Sansom wears his research lightly and gets right under the skin of his characters. The result is a tense, literate page-turner, full of twists, authentic detail and real pathos, a superb achievementGuardian

A convincing and moving historical novel, which is also an exciting thriller . . . Sansom has a good eye for detail that brings the time aliveSunday Times

Thoroughly researched, convincingly evocative and solidly entertainingDaily Telegraph