It's hard to think of a contemporary author who so effortlessly marries popular and literary fiction as enjoyably as this.
The Siege is his best yet, in an excellent translation by Frank Wynne: an ambitious intellectual thriller peopled with colourful rogues and antiheroes, meticulous in its historical detail, with a plot that rattles along to its unexpected finale. Con ms de veinte millones de lectores en todo el mundo, muchas de sus novelas han sido llevadas al cine y la televisin. Fue reportero de guerra durante veintin aos, en los que cubri siete guerras civiles en frica, Amrica y Europa para los diarios y la televisin.
In the confined atmosphere of the besieged town, unlikely characters cross paths and become entangled in one another's lives: the French professor turned officer the young heiress who runs her father's shipping company a taxidermist who works as a spy and, behind them all, the complex Tizón, trying to decipher the pattern amid the chaos of war and murder.įans of Pérez-Reverte, one of Spain's bestselling authors, will recognise familiar themes from previous novels: the fascination with chess, the love of maritime history, the obsession with puzzles and enigmas and the old-fashioned qualities of romance, adventure and intrigue that places his stories firmly in the mould of Dumas and Stevenson. Arturo Prez-Reverte naci en Cartagena, Espaa, en 1951.
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