Salazar’s Angels of Death
by Miguel Araújo OliveiraPublish: Sep 16, 2024Historical Fiction Book Overview
The work concerns a group of young dissidents (mostly university students) who kidnap a man during the Portuguese dictatorship (1933-1974) to put him on trial. The youth accuse the man of being an unofficial member of the PIDE (Salazar's secret state police). They also accuse him of spying on various people and thus being responsible for their arrest, torture, or murder. The accused tries to defend himself. However, as he justifies and whitewashes fascism, he is unable to convince the dissidents of his innocence. The trial leader sentences the alleged informant to death. But just before the dissidents can take the law into their own hands, the tide turns...
