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Gil explores how a state-sponsored crime can continue to damage lives long after the dictators are gone.

"Las jaurías" is a gripping by Spanish journalist and author Alberto Gil , which earned him the prestigious Premio L'H Confidencial in 2020. The novel is a hybrid of historical fiction and a modern detective story , centered around one of the most infamous crimes of the 20th century on the Iberian Peninsula. Plot Overview Las jaurias - Alberto Gil.epub

The novel heavily features the landscapes of Extremadura and the Alentejo region, using the desolate beauty of the border as a character in its own right. Gil explores how a state-sponsored crime can continue

In April 1965, the bodies of Portuguese opposition leader General Humberto Delgado and his secretary, Arajaryr Moreira de Campos, were found in an Extremaduran village near the Spanish-Portuguese border. They were murdered by the PIDE (the Portuguese political police) under the orders of dictator António de Oliveira Salazar , with quiet cooperation from the Franco regime. Plot Overview The novel heavily features the landscapes

The story alternates between a haunting past and a modern search for closure.

Decades later, Abel Castro , an unemployed veteran journalist who once covered the case, is visited by Catarina , a young Portuguese photographer. She is haunted by her own family mystery: her uncle disappeared the same year Delgado was killed, a tragedy that slowly poisoned her family for generations.