MADRID, 1982.Comandante Leopoldo Guzm-has decided it is time to disappear. Franco is dead and there''s no place in the new order for the former head of the tyrant''s secret police. But first, Guzm-needs money. Luckily, blackmail has always come easily to him - after all, he knows where the bodies are.And so he should. He buried them.MADRID, 2010.Fifteen tangled corpses in a disused mine, three bound skeletons in a sealed cellar - a trail of dead that has led forensic investigator Ana Mar-Gal-ez to one Comandante Leopoldo Guzm- Guzm-himself disappeared decades ago but she fears his toxic legacy lives on. Her investigation has revealed a dark conspiracy born amid the corruption of Franco''s dictatorship, a conspiracy that after decades in the shadows is finally ready to bloom.