Siege, or chess with death. 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 Tison, local police commissar, not distinguished by the softness of the disposition, along with Hippolytus Barrul, a partner of the chess commissar, finds the mysterious killer...

Roman Pereza-Reverte-Acute, on the verge of life and death, tense, in some 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.

the writer himself, the author of such international bestsellers as the Flemish Board, Club Dyum (the literary basis of the “ninth gate” of Roman Polanski with Johnny Depp), the cycle of novels about the adventures of Captain Alatrist (film adaptation with Vigo Mortensen) and many others, says this about the book: “Technically, this is my most difficult romance, with the most extensive structure... I am later Twenty years as if he returned again to my old novels. There is a political intrigue with espionage, an investigation, and a love line, and sea battles, and adventure. "