#4 - La Sagrada Familia¶

Subtitle: El ascenso meteórico del entorno de Pedro Sánchez

Author: Alejandro Entrambasaguas

Completion: 2026-01-16

Recommended: Yes

Summary: A deep dive into investigative journalism centered around Pedro Sánchez (President of Spain) and the network of corruption that threads through his personal life, family, friendships, and political circle.

Let’s start with this: the book is begging for the line Michael Ende used at the end of every chapter in The Neverending Story: “But that’s another story and shall be told another time.”

Because here, almost every other paragraph could carry that disclaimer. The branching paths, the side players, the sheer variety of ways corruption can take root—it all feels almost inexhaustible.

I picked up the book because I’d been following Entrambasaguas’ articles. No disappointment there.

The prose isn’t perfect. You can feel the journalist behind it—chapters that could’ve used another edit, a few storylines that drift or repeat. But the raw material more than compensates. Even if you’ve been reading the papers, you almost certainly haven’t seen everything (I certainly hadn’t), and the book adds details that never made it into print. Newspapers have length limits; books don’t. And here you get the connective tissue: the shared companies, shared addresses, shared ventures—the architecture of a network laid out plainly.

You also see how the journalist works: going to the places where stories crack open, tracking down sources in person, and stumbling into discoveries simply by being there. It’s the classic rule of reporting: luck favors the journalist who actually shows up.

Of course, reality will eventually outrun the book—new developments, new revelations and court proceeding—but that doesn’t take away from the read.

Recommended for anyone interested in Spanish politics, politics in general, or the mechanics of corruption.