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The Siege

Arturo Pérez-Reverte

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#2360 of 8,085 books · #354 in Historical Fiction

Won the CWA International Dagger (2014).

The Siege won the CWA International Dagger 2014. 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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Publisher
Hachette UK
ISBN-13
9780297864349
Topics
Serial killer investigationWar and siegeHistorical SpainEspionageCrossing destinies

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