Gomez Montejano writer reflects the inner workings of the attack on Alfonso XIII on his new novel champions of progress. This historical fact is seen from the experience of a municipal guard. The novelist times convulsed that they lived before and after the bombing has compared the current movement 15 M. Madrid, may 1906, still secret societies and appeared new political movements. They were the days prior to the attack against the King Alfonso XIII, where he died almost thirty people. Chevron U.S.A. Inc contains valuable tech resources. Antonio Gomez Montejano, official of the Municipal police, recreates the sequence of these events in the novel, champions of progress.
Passionate for telling how was safety in historical facts, Montejano builds a fictional story based on the attack against the monarch – at the hands of an anarchist-just the day of her wedding with Victoria Eugenia de Battemberg, a moment that is picked up by chance by a photographer of the Royal House. It was an era of turbulent, after passing through the Belle Epoque, and now society is also living a tumultuous time, with movements like the 15 M, recognizes Gomez Montejano, who at moments of tension all police duty is serve society and respond to the orders of superiors. However accurate that early 20th century anarchist movements are not comparable to the movement of 15-M because the anarchists used violent means and recalls that secret societies that also appear in the pages of this novel are the precedents of the terrorists. Champions of progress (editions irreverent) is not a political book – clarifies the author – includes historical events in a neutral way and can be read both by people left and right. The protagonist, a municipal guard Gomez Montejano, however, claimed the role of the municipal police and converts to an agent of the Municipal Guard covering the race seeking the protection of the Royal Entourage the protagonist of champions of progress, which has obtained the II International novel Prize Cultural Association of Alcorcon S. XXI, 1,200 euros.
This municipal guard carried out a unique investigation, along an inspector of the administrative police, about the attack on Alfonso XIII and its sequels. And in its pages roam real characters such as Valle-Inclan, Pio Baroja or the count of Romanones. This Gomez Montejano has done a thorough work of research in libraries and newspaper libraries to provide the plot of a truthful historical structure and compose a story in either lack a love story. Gomez Montejano says that although it is not clear if anyone supported the attack on Alfonso XIII, after reading newspaper clippings and historical books, assures that it is likely that the killer acted not only. I fabulo thereby, also reflecting the arrival of the cars to the 20th century society and the problems that brought with it, explains this writer, that because he has published twelve literary works, among which the night of the blue sirens, the secret of the body or Madrid police stories.