75 years ago, just as International Brigade volunteers returning from the Civil War in Spain, a group of Britons began flocking there for very different reasons – to take part in organised tourist holidays of the battlefields. And that story is now told for the first time by author David Ebsworth in his new novel, The Assassin’s Mark.
It’s September 1938. Spain's Civil War has been raging for two years, the outcome still in the balance. But rebel General Franco is so confident of winning that he's opened up battlefield tourism along the country's north coast.
Jack Telford, a left-wing reporter for the Cooperative Party’s Reynold’s News, finds himself among an eccentric group of tourists on one of the War Route's yellow Chrysler buses. Driven by his passion for peace, Telford attempts to uncover the hidden truths beneath the conflict.
But Jack must contend first with his own gullibility, the tragic death of a fellow-passenger, capture by Republican guerrilleros, a final showdown at Spain's most holy shrine and the possibility that he has been badly betrayed. Betrayed and in serious danger.
David Ebsworth is the pen name of writer, Dave McCall, a former negotiator and Regional Secretary for the Transport & General Workers’ Union/Unite. Born in Liverpool, and now living in North Wales, Dave began to write seriously following his retirement in 2008.
There's also been considerable praise for David Ebsworth's debut novel, The Jacobites' Apprentice - critically reviewed by the Historical Novel Society who deemed it "worthy of a place on every historical fiction bookshelf."
You can find out more about David Ebsworth and his books at his website: www.davidebsworth.com
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Reviewed by the Historical Novel Society as "worthy of a place on every historical fiction bookshelf."
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