The Sentinel: Vengeance of Memory 1

I took a gamble on this one. Something caught my imagination. Oh that was a good move. What a book, brilliant and totally absorbing. The story is demanding, gruesome and relentlessly draws you in. The main character is truly Shakespearean, hard, bad and tragic. There a three linked stories and each is powerful and important. I kept wanting to get back to each one, frustrated when the book took you the next. The narrator is brilliant and adds so much to the book, his skill with voices is a delight. Read it and pay attention. It all matters.

Not normally my type of book but the reviews were good. This book is great. Although it was longer then normal it held my interest from the first page. It covers three time zones but you always knew where you were. I recommend it. The narrater Nigel Carrington was very good and I enjoyed listening to him.

Set in both post revolutionary Spain and contemporary Spain, this first of a trilogy. Leo Guzman is a brilliant creation, one of Franco's enforcers a methodical killer. Ana Maria Galindez is the lead in the present day a forensic scientist who is perusing Guzman from the present. Although complicated the story is fascinating especially as I knew very little about Spain in 1953. I look forward to the next instalment

This book was a little slow to get going due to jumping forward and backward in time, however stick with it as its truly brilliant. I really did a turnaround with this book wishing it would not finish as I was sucked into the story, and wanted to stay with the characters.



I can't recommend this book enough and truly can't wait for the next Mark Oldfield book as its the first of three!

quite hard topic but this went on, and well told loved it again only use audible in my car to and from work.

Ignore the poor reviews this is a brilliant book, one of the best audio books I have ever listened to. The narration was very good, and even had in not been the fantastic story would have made up for it. Get it now & you’ll be hooked!

One of the best novels I've listened to in a long time . Informative , exciting and a good story told over three eras of Spanish history; I was genuinelu sorry for it to end. I really have no idea why some reviewers are on about the narration , it was excellent and the accents were more than adequate to convey the story. There were enough twists and turns to keep me with it over it's considerable length and I await part 2 with keen anticipation.

The story is very well written with colourful characters and the customary twist at the end is quite unexpected. There a two things that I found annoying, one is the spanish mixed in with the story, but the real problem was the narration, the book is very obviously set in Spain, so you would expect some naff Spanish accent, but thats not what you get, no, one of the characters has a Scottish accent, this really spoilt the book for me.

I was disappointed in this book. The narrator was required to throw in odd words and phrases in Spanish which he did poorly. There were very unlikely story lines and some of the main characters were hard to visualise as their descriptions were inadequate.

I had high hopes of this book but was disappointed by the old fashioned tied sexual politics and the thinly drawn characters, I carried on to the end but saw no improvement. I was hoping the world had moved on from this type of book not my type of read at all