In Hiding: The Life of Manuel Cortes

âIn the mountain of books about that war there cannot be another so brief and yet so complete, so unguarded and yet so subtle, so movingly human as this.ââArthur Miller, The New York Times

In Hiding is the spellbinding story of a man who spent thirty years holed up in his own home to escape execution. Manuel Cortés, a socialist and mayor of the village of Mijas in Andalusia, became a marked man once Francoâs forces took power. Cortés stayed under cover until amnesty was decreed in 1969. This absorbing narrative, based on numerous in-depth interviews, chronicles an awe-inspiring ordeal and depicts one of Spainâs darkest hours in visceral detail.