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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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- Erscheinungsdatum
- 2013
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- Titel
- The Siege
- Sprache
- Englisch
- Autor*innen
- Arturo Pérez-Reverte
- Verlag
- Weidenfeld & Nicolson
- Erscheinungsdatum
- 2013
- Einband
- Paperback
- Seitenzahl
- 563
- ISBN10
- 0297864327
- ISBN13
- 9780297864325
- Reihe
- Schlagwörter
- Belletristik, Krimi & Thriller, Historische Romane, Krimi, 19. Jahrhundert, Spanische Literatur, Spanien, Napoleonische Kriege, Belagerung
- Erstveröffentlichung
- 2010
- Originaltitel
- El asedio
- Bewertung
- 3,55 von 5 Sternen
- Beschreibung
- 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...