Mikel A powerful, provocative, and politically charged fictionalized memoir

A powerful, provocative, and politically charged fictionalized memoir Mikel lives with his wife and two children in Costur, an idyllic Spanish town surrounded by hills.

He has a job selling candy, but Mikel is a dreamer, not a businessman, and money is tight.

Whats more, the ordinariness of smalltown life is preventing him from fulfilling a lifelong dream: to become a writer.Seeking both drama and financial security, Mikel takes a job as a bodyguard.

His family is soon uprooted to the Basque Country, where Mikel is charged with protecting politicians from the armed separatist group ETA.

It is a job that provides drama worthy of the pagebut only at the cost of fear, uncertainty, and family breakdown.In Mikel, author Mark Bellido draws on his own experiences to create a powerful and provocative story about a man who risks everything in the pursuit of a dream.