The siege /
by Arturo Pérez-Reverte ; translated from the Spanish by Frank Wynne.
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| Summary: | 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... |
| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English Spanish Translated from the Spanish. |
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London
Phoenix,
2014.
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| Notes: | First published in Great Britain: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 2013. Physical description: 563 pages : maps ; 20 cm. more |
| ISBN: | 9780753829288 0753829282 |
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