Siege, or chess with death. In the Kazakh language. Perev-Reverte A.

1811-1812. Kadis, the last stronghold of the Spaniards fighting for their independence, is besieged by the French. Joseph Bonaparte’s troops are systematically firing at the city, and, a strange thing, in those places where shells fall, a series of brutal killings of young girls occurs. Rochelio Tyson, local police commissar, not distinguished by the softness of the disposition, together with Hippolytus Barrul, a partner of the chess commissar, search for a mysterious killer...

Roman Pereza-Reverte-Acute, on the verge of life and death, tense, in places crazy A multi -way chess party, the figures in which are unpredictable, and the result of the game can change not only the fate of the heroes, but also the course of world history.