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 get, a series of brutal killings of young girls takes place. 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. The writer himself, the author of such international bestsellers as the Flemish Board, the Dumas Club (the literary basis of the ninth gate of Roman Polanski with Johnny Depp), the novels cycle about the adventures of Captain Alatrist (adaptation with Vigo Mortensen) and many others, says so, says so About the book: “Technically, this is my most difficult romance, with the most branched structure... Twenty years later I returned to my old novels again. There is a political intrigue with espionage, an investigation, and a love line, and sea battles, and adventures. ”