# Mikel

Canonical: https://www.bookquiver.com/judith-vanistendael/mikel/9781910593707

JSON version (same data): https://www.bookquiver.com/judith-vanistendael/mikel/9781910593707.json

![Mikel](https://quivercdn.com/covers/selfmadehero/judith-vanistendael/mikel_978-19-1059-370-7-aa9fef12.webp?v=2026-11-08%2004%3A24%3A38)

- Book: [Mikel](https://www.bookquiver.com/judith-vanistendael/mikel) ([Mikel.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/judith-vanistendael/mikel.md))
- Authors: [Judith Vanistendael](https://www.bookquiver.com/judith-vanistendael)
- Publisher: SelfMadeHero
- ISBN: 978-19-1059-370-7
- Pages: 368
- Published: 2019-10-17
- Language: en_US
- Binding: Hardcover

## Description

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. What’s more, the ordinariness of smalltown life is preventing him from fulfilling a life-long 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 page—but 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.