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25%OFFArturo Perez-Reverte - SIEGE - 9780753829288 - V9780753829288
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SIEGE

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Description for SIEGE Paperback. WINNER OF THE CWA INTERNATIONAL DAGGER 2014 Num Pages: 576 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FFH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 205 x 162 x 37. Weight in Grams: 394.

WINNER OF 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 ... Read more

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Product Details

Publisher
W&N
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Condition
New
Number of Pages
576
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780753829288
SKU
V9780753829288
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99-10

About Arturo Perez-Reverte
Arturo Pérez-Reverte lives near Madrid. Originally a war correspondent, he now writes fiction full time. His novels include THE FLANDERS PANEL,THE CLUB DUMAS, THE FENCING MASTER, THE SEVILLE COMMUNION, THE NAUTICAL CHART, THE QUEEN OF THE SOUTH and the bestselling Captain Alatriste series. In 2003 he was elected to the Spanish Royal Academy. His website can be visited at https://www.perezreverte.com ... Read more

Reviews for SIEGE
That rare thing, an old-fashioned, proper, big novel: The Siege is as much a thickly described historical fiction as a many-layered crime novel. The judges admired the claustrophobia of the siege of Cadiz (for both sides) during the Peninsular War that forms the detailed background to the investigation and the author's serious ethical intentions. To quote Orson Welles, Who knows ... Read more

Goodreads reviews for SIEGE


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