The Siege
Winner of the 2014 CWA International Dagger
$52.48
- Paperback
576 pages
- Release Date
8 July 2014
Summary
Cadiz, 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 …
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780753829288 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 0753829282 |
| Author: | Arturo Perez-Reverte |
| Publisher: | Orion Publishing Co |
| Imprint: | Weidenfeld & Nicolson |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 576 |
| Release Date: | 8 July 2014 |
| Weight: | 406g |
| Dimensions: | 129mm x 198mm x 37mm |
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Arturo Perez-Reverte’s bold new thriller … THE SIEGE is his best yet: an ambitious intellectual thriller peopled with colourful rogues and antiheroes, meticulous in its historical detail, with a plot that rattles along to its unexpected finale - OBSERVER
Perez-Reverte’s novel is an intelligent thriller packed with intrigue and romance - DAILY MAILArturo Perez-Reverte has long been Spain’s most popular, inventive writer of historical fiction … this is a big and bold novel, rich in character and incident - SUNDAY TIMESArturo Perez-Reverte is the great European storyteller of the 21st centuryAbout The Author
Arturo Perez-Reverte
Arturo Perez-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.
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