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End Games (Aurelio Zen 11)

End Games (Aurelio Zen 11)

by Michael Dibdin (Author)

  • Used

    Hardcover 2007

    $4.27

  • Used

    Paperback 2007

    $3.28
Synopsis

The dead man followed the track until it rose above the last remaining trees and ceased to be a rough line of beaten earth and scruffy grass, to become a stony ramp hewn out of the cliff face and deeply rutted by the abrasive force of ancient iron-rimmed cart wheels. By now il morto was clearly suffering, but he struggled on, pausing frequently to gasp for breath before tackling another stretch of the scorched rock on which the soles of his feet left bloody footprints. Aurelio Zen's final case brings him to remote town of Calabria, at the toe of Italy's boot, on what is supposed to be a routine assignment: the death of a scout for an American film company. But the case is complicated by a group of dangerous strangers who have arrived to uncover another local mystery - buried treasure - and who will stop at nothing to achieve their goal. The case rapidly spirals out of control, and Zen must penetrate the code of silence in the tight-knit community in order to solve the crime. If you enjoyed the Inspector Zen Mystery series you may also like The Last Sherlock Holmes Story, another crime novel by Michael Dibdin.

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Format: Hardcover
 Pages: 352
 Edition: Main
 Publisher: Faber & Faber
Published: 05 Jul 2007
ISBN 10: 0571236154
ISBN 13: 9780571236152
Book Overview: End Games is the final book in the Inspector Zen series from the 'maestro of crime writing', by Michael Dibdin: a tale of buried treasure and gangster assassins set in the remote town of Calabria. Now a major TV series on BBC One from the producers of DCI Banks and Wallander featuring Rufus Sewell.

Media Reviews
Supremely talented and enormously witty.
-- Globe and Mail
One of an elite cadre of crime fiction writers for whom literary critics break out all of their favorite adjectives.
-- January Magazine
Michael Dibdin' s policiers are more addictive than crack cocaine.
-- The Guardian (U.K.)
[Dibdin] remains a class act, his vignettes of Italy as sharp as ever, his laconic hero impossible to resist.
-- Sunday Telegraph (U.K.)
Supremely talented and enormously witty.
-- Globe and Mail
One of an elite cadre of crime fiction writers for whom literary critics break out all of their favorite adjectives.
-- January Magazine
Michael Dibdin ' s policiers are more addictive than crack cocaine.
-- The Guardian (U.K.)
[Dibdin] remains a class act, his vignettes of Italy as sharp as ever, his laconic hero impossible to resist.
-- Sunday Telegraph (U.K.)
Supremely talented and enormously witty.
-- Globe and Mail
One of an elite cadre of crime fiction writers for whom literary critics break out all of their favorite adjectives.
-- January Magazine
Michael Dibdin's policiers are more addictive than crack cocaine.
-- The Guardian (U.K.)
[Dibdin] remains a class act, his vignettes of Italy as sharp as ever, his laconic hero impossible to resist.
-- Sunday Telegraph (U.K.)
Didbin's Italy-based Aurelio Zen tales are among the best in the mystery genre.
-- The Boston Globe
Didbin has an abundance of gifts: bracing wit, the ability to wring unexpected poignance out of dark comedy, and a gift for striking imagery.
-- The Wall Street Journal
Didbin belongs to that hierarchy of innovative stylists who make it a point of honor never to repeat a singal trick.
-- The New York Times Book Review
Didbin's work deserves comparison with such...giants as Raymond Chandler.
-- The Oregonian
Didbin is esential reading for those who love mysteries and Italy without illusions.
-- The Washington Post

From the Hardcover edition.

Author Bio
Michael Dibdin was born in 1947, and attended schools in Scotland and Ireland and universities in England and Canada. He is the author of the internationally bestselling Inspector Zen Mystery series. The first novel in the series, Ratking, won the Crime Writers' Association Gold Dagger. Other titles in the series include Medusa, Back to Bologna and End Games. He died in 2007.