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Cádiz, 1811. While the city is under siege from the marauding French army, an even greater menace is lurking within the city walls: a serial killer is on the loose, flaying young women to death. Each of these murders takes place near where a French bomb has just fallen. In order to find the murderer, police commissioner Rogelio Tizon begins to perceive the city as a vast chessboard as he tries to predict his unknown opponent's next deadly move. In the claustrophobic atmosphere of the besieged town, an heiress, an unscrupulous corsair captain, a taxidermist who is also a spy and a hardened soldier begin to cross paths, and behind them all the figure of Tizon is getting closer to deciphering the lethal pattern behind the murders...
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The Siege, Arturo Pérez-Reverte
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- Released
- 2013
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- Title
- The Siege
- Language
- English
- Authors
- Arturo Pérez-Reverte
- Publisher
- Weidenfeld & Nicolson
- Released
- 2013
- Format
- Paperback
- Pages
- 563
- ISBN10
- 0297864327
- ISBN13
- 9780297864325
- Series
- Tags
- Fiction, Mystery & Thriller, Historical Fiction, Mystery Novels, 19th century, Spanish Literature, Spain, Napoleonic Wars, Siege
- First published
- 2010
- Original title
- El asedio
- Rating
- 3.55 out of 5
- Description
- Cádiz, 1811. While the city is under siege from the marauding French army, an even greater menace is lurking within the city walls: a serial killer is on the loose, flaying young women to death. Each of these murders takes place near where a French bomb has just fallen. In order to find the murderer, police commissioner Rogelio Tizon begins to perceive the city as a vast chessboard as he tries to predict his unknown opponent's next deadly move. In the claustrophobic atmosphere of the besieged town, an heiress, an unscrupulous corsair captain, a taxidermist who is also a spy and a hardened soldier begin to cross paths, and behind them all the figure of Tizon is getting closer to deciphering the lethal pattern behind the murders...