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A Broken Land
First published 2011
A favour to a friend takes Cal Jardine to Barcelona as the Spanish Civil War begins. Athletes gathered for the People’s Olympiad become an improvised fighting group, joining him in the street battles and wider struggle against the military uprising.
Political factionalism follows them into the field, where a communist zealot and a calculated betrayal threaten the unit from within. Jardine’s commitment to the Republican cause becomes inseparable from his need to identify and punish the person who sold them out.
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