End Games: An Aurelio Zen Mystery

End Games: An Aurelio Zen Mystery

by Michael Dibdin (Author)

Synopsis

Aurelio Zen is posted to remote Calabria, at the toe of the Italian boot. And beneath the surface of a tight-knit traditional community he discovers that violent forces are at work. There has been a brutal murder. Zen is determined to find a way to penetrate the code of silence and uncover the truth. But his mission is complicated by another secret which has drawn strangers from the other side of the world - a hunt for buried treasure launched by a single-minded player with millions to spend pursuing his bizarre and deadly obsession. Michael Dibdin has crafted another suspenseful, action-packed thriller full of unexpected twists and turns through the dark corners of the human heart.

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Format: Paperback
Pages: 288
Edition: Export edn.
Publisher: Faber
Published: 05 Jul 2007

ISBN 10: 0571236162
ISBN 13: 9780571236169
Book Overview: A brutal killer. A lost treasure. And a conspiracy of silence thwarting Italy's greatest detective.

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. He went to school in Northern Ireland, and later to Sussex University and the University of Alberta in Canada. He lives in Seattle. Ratking won the Gold Dagger Award for the Best Crime Novel of the year and introduced us to his Italian detective - Inspector Aurelio Zen. Vendetta was the second story in the Zen series. Cabal was published in 1992, followed by Dead Lagoon, Cosi Fan Tutti, A Long Finish, Blood Rain, And Then You Die and Medusa. Back to Bologna was published to great acclaim in 2005.