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Author Pérez-Reverte, Arturo.

Title El asedio / Arturo Pérez-Reverte.

Publication Info. Madrid : Alfaguara, 2010.

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 New Britain, Main Library - Foreign Language  SP FIC PEREZ-REVERTE, A    Check Shelf
 West Hartford, Noah Webster Library - Welcome Center  SP F PEREZ-REVERTE ARTURO    Check Shelf
Edition 2. ed.
Description 727 pages : maps ; 24 cm
Summary Cádiz, España, el año es 1811. En las calles de la ciudad más liberal de Europa mujeres jóvenes aparecen desolladas a latigazos. En cada lugar, antes del hallazgo del cadáver, ha caído una bomba francesa. Eso traza sobre la ciudad un mapa superpuesto y siniestro: un complejo tablero de ajedrez donde la mano de un jugador oculto--un asesino despiadado, el azar, las curvas de artillería, la dirección de los vientos, el cálculo de probabilidades mueve piezas que deciden el destino de los protagonistas: un policía corrupto y brutal, la heredera de una importante casa comercial gaditana, un capitán corsario de pocos escrúpulos, un taxidermista misántropo y espía, un enternecedor guerrillero de las salinas y un excéntrico artillero a quien las guerras importan menos que resolver el problema técnico del corto alcance de sus obuses.
Cadiz, the year 1811. While Spain and America are both fighting for their independence, a different type of battle is being waged in Europe's most liberal city. Young women are found dead, their throats severed by the cutting slash of a whip. And in each place, just before another dead body is found, a French bomb has exploded. These events create a sinister sketch over the city: a complex chess board where the hand of a mysterious player--a ruthless murderer, chance, the direction of the winds, the estimation of probabilities moves the pieces that determine the fate of the characters: a savage and corrupt police officer, the heiress to a local commercial empire, an unscrupulous privateer, a misanthropic taxidermist and spy, a guerrilla fighter from the coast capable of inspiring the most tender feelings, and an eccentric artilleryman more concerned with finding a solution to the short range of his mortar and shells than with war.
Subject Cádiz (Spain) -- Fiction.
Cádiz (España) -- Novela.
Genre/Form Fiction. (OCoLC)fst01423787
Subject Spain -- Cádiz. (OCoLC)fst01204632
ISBN 9788420405551
8420405558
9786071104427
6071104424
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