DOS Días de Mayo / Two Days in May

Cuarta entrega de la serie de novela polic aca ambientada en la Barcelona de posguerra, de Jordi Sierra i Fabra. El ex inspector Mascarell descubre casi por azar un plan para asesinar a Franco durante su visita a Barcelona en 1949. 30 y 31 de mayo de 1949. Francisco Franco, Caudillo de Espa a, visita Barcelona en un clima callejero de euforia y rendici n a la dictadura. Pero no todos piensan lo mismo y en dos d as, silenciado por la prensa, estallar una decena de bombas en la ciudad. Miquel Mascarell, el ltimo polic a republicano, con su nueva vida ya asentada al lado de Patro, va a tropezarse de bruces con un complot para asesinar al dictador. Buscando al asesino de un antiguo amigo y compa ero en la polic a, por petici n de su hija, pronto descubrir que puede cambiar la historia. Si lo encuentra quiz no se produzca un atentado. Si calla, el pa s puede enfrentarse a una nueva guerra civil o a un giro de 180 grados con la muerte del General simo. La clave: dos d as de b squeda bajo el peso de la responsabilidad, apenas unas horas en las que Mascarell se mover sobre el filo de una navaja. Ser el destino o su propia decisi n lo que marcar la resoluci n de todo? Con la rigurosa precisi n hist rica y las minuciosas tramas policiales de Cuatro d as de enero, Siete d as de julio y Cinco d as de octubre, Dos d as de mayo enfrenta al veterano Miquel Mascarell con todos sus fantasmas, y m s sabiendo que est en su mano detener o acelerar el curso de la historia. ENGLISH DESCRIPTION

1949, 10 years and 4 months after the Spanish Civil War. Miguel Mascarell, a former police inspector for the anti-Franco Republic, is alone in Barcelona where he receives news about the death of Mateo Galvany, his former boss, a man who once saved his life. His daughter Maria confesses to Mascarell that she thinks her father was killed. She tells him that a few days prior, the police took them both into custody without explanation. Maria was released the next morning. Her tortured father came back days later stunned and almost speechless. He only managed to tell his daughter that if anything were to happen to him, she should find Mascarell. Despite the veil of silence and repression that weighs on Barcelona and the entire country, Mascarell decides to accept Maria's request for help and find out why her father died. A woman, Esperanza Sistachs, who recently became part of Mateo Galvany's life had restored his will to live. She hands Mascarell a notebook with Mateo's personal notes, which helps him find the identity of the four men that his ex-boss was recently visiting with. Mascarell will follow the trail left by these men that will take him to the barracks of Montju c and eventually to the most famous family of criminals in the city.He will soon understand that he is facing an intricate plan to assassinate the dictator.