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DEATH OF A NATURALIST by REBECCA PAWEL
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SummaryMadrid 1939. Carlos Tejada Alonso y Leon is a Sergeant in
the Guardia Civil, a rank rare for a man not yet thirty,
but Tejada is an unusual recruit. The bitter civil war
between the Nationalists and the Republicans has
interrupted his legal studies in Salamanca. 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, fascists support the
Nationalists, while communists 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 caught kneeling
over the body is the killer. But when his doubts are
aroused, he cannot help seeking justice.
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