The siege

563 pages

English language

Published Jan. 3, 2014 by Phoenix.

ISBN:
978-0-7538-2928-8
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OCLC Number:
887685954

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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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Subjects

  • Fiction
  • History

Places

  • Cádiz (Spain)
  • Spain
  • Cádiz