The Siege by Arturo Pérez-Reverte
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Blurb: Cádiz, 1811. Spain is battling for independence while America is doing the same. But in the streets of the most liberal city in Europe other battles are taking place. A serial killer is on the loose, flaying young women to death. Each of these murders takes place near the site where a French bomb has just fallen. It is the job of policeman Rogelio Tizon to find the murderer and avoid public scandal in a city already posied on the brink. (Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 2013)
Stephanie Merritt, The Observer
“The Siege is his best yet, in an excellent translation by Frank Wynne: 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. It’s hard to think of a contemporary author who so effortlessly marries popular and literary fiction as enjoyably as this.”
Nick Rennison, The Sunday Times
“Although the resolution to the plot’s central mystery remains curiously unsatisfying, this is a big and bold novel, rich in character and incident.”
Kate Saunders, The Times
“ Personally I found the pace a little too stately and the attention to detail too nerdy. But if you like the sort of novels where characters say “Brail that mizzen-topgallant!” without a hint of irony, you’ll absolutely love this. There are some interesting maps.”
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