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El asedio

Arturo Pérez-Reverte

2010563 pagesabout 9–13 hours
2010
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  • 2010Círculo de LectoresISBN 9788467240436
  • 2013Weidenfeld & Nicolson · 563 pages · ENGISBN 9780297864325
  • 2014Phoenix · 563 pages · ENGISBN 9780753829288
  • 2014598 pages · ENGISBN 9781400069682
  • 2017Planeta
  • 2010ALFAGUARAISBN 9789587049466
  • 2020Debolsillo · 816 pagesISBN 9788466350013

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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