Siege, or Chess with Death: A Novel by / Arturo Pérez-Reverte; pen. with . A. Bogdanovsky . - M. : Foreigner, ABC-Atticus, 2021. — (Big Romance). — ISBN 978-5-389-20501-7 . 16+181112. Cadiz, the last stronghold of the Spaniards fighting for their independence, is besieged by the French. Joseph Bonaparte's troops systematically shell the city, and, strangely enough, it is in those places where the shells fall that a series of brutal murders of young girls takes place. Rogelio Tison, the local police commissioner, not distinguished by soft temper, together with Ipolito Barrul, a partner of the commissioner for chess, are looking for a mysterious killer ... Roman Perez-Reverte is a sharp, on the verge of life and death, tense, sometimes crazy multi-way chess game, 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 Roman Polanski’s Ninth Gate with Johnny Depp), a series of novels about the adventures of Captain Alatriste (screenplay with Vigo Mortensen) and many others, so tells about the book. “Technically, it’s my most complicated novel, with the most ramified structure... Twenty years later, I feel like I’m back to my old novels. There is also political intrigue with espionage, and investigation, and love line, and sea battles, and adventures.