A review by johnk
The Siege by Frank Wynne, Arturo Pérez-Reverte

4.0

Don't expect a happy ending from this dark tale set around the siege of Cadiz during the Peninsular War. A series of gruesome murders runs concurrent with a love interest, lessons in physics, battles with the French and the economic woes of Spain at a time when it was starting to lose its colonies. Here we also see, in an earlier century from For Whom The Bell Tolls, the Spanish capability to meet out immense cruelty upon one another.
Extremely well written and researched and very readable.