0Cuando Miquel Mascarell se encarga de la b squeda de un joven anarquista descubre que el xito en su investigaci n podr a implicar su propia muerte. 1948. Un a o despu s de abandonar el Valle de los Ca dos tras su indulto, Miquel Mascarell, el ltimo polic a de la Barcelona republicana, ha rehecho su vida al lado de Patro, la joven a quien ya ha salvado dos veces. La visita de un hombre temible y su extra o encargo, buscar la tumba de su sobrino muerto el 18 de julio de 1936, volver a poner al viejo inspector en el disparadero, enfrentado a sus fantasmas, su supervivencia y movi ndose por una ciudad extra a que vive la posguerra en busca de un nuevo futuro. En esos mismos d as, en Madrid, un consejo de guerra juzga al grupo de los ochenta, los maquis que siguen la lucha contra la dictadura. Qu secreto esconde el cad ver de aquel joven cuya tumba busca Mascarell doce a os despu s y sin testigos vivos de aquel incidente? Ambientada con exactitud y precisi n en la Espa a de su tiempo, Cinco d as de octubre es una novela que nos hace retroceder al pasado para comprender, quiz , nuestro presente y la forma en que sobrevivimos. ENGLISH DESCRIPTION When Miquel Mascarell takes on the search for a young anarchist, he discovers that the success of his investigation could entail his own death. 1948. One year after being pardoned from the Valley of the Fallen, Miquel Mascarell, the last policeman from Republican Barcelona, has rebuilt his life alongside Patro, the young woman he has already saved twice. A visit from a frightening man and his strange mission--to search for the tomb of his nephew who died on July 18, 1936--once again drives the former inspector to distraction, facing his ghosts, his survival, and a strange city that is living the post-war in search of a new future. At the same time, in Madrid, a court-martial judges the resistance movement fighting against the dictatorship. What secret is being hidden by the body of that young man whose tomb Mascarell is searching for, twelve years after the fact and without living witnesses of the incident? Set with precision in the Spain of the era, Five Days of October is a novel that makes us return to the past to--hopefully--understand our present and the way we survive.