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End Games

by Michael Dibdin

Series: Aurelio Zen (11)

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Dibdin is back to form with a well-plotted crime novel. Whilst there is the usual existential angst from Zen (his hatred for tomato-based southern Italian cooking is very funny), his personal life is not intrusive. What a pity that this was Dibdin's last novel (he died shortly after it was completed), but at least Zen's personal life seemed to have reached a state of equilibrium.... ( )
  saliero | Feb 13, 2008 |
Reviewed in Mystery Scene.
  bfister | Dec 28, 2007 |
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The ferocious character of the Barbarians was displayed, in the funeral of a hero, whose valour, and fortune, they celebrated with mournful applause. By the labour of a captive multitude, they forcibly diverted the course of the Busentinus, a small river that washes the walls of Cosentia. The royal sepulchre, adorned with the splendid spoils, and trophies, of Rome, was constructed in the vacant bed; the waters were then restored to their natural channel; and the secret spot, where the remains of Alaric had been deposited, was for ever concealed by the inhuman massacre of the prosoners, who had been employed to execute the work. --Edward Gibbon, 'The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire'
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The dead man parked his car at the edge of the town, beside a crumbling wall marking the bounds of a rock-gashed wasteland of crippled oaks and the dusty scrub whose ownership had been the subject of litigation for over three decades, and which had gradually turned into an unofficial rubbish tip for the local population.
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End Games

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Amazon.com Product Description (ISBN 0375425217, Hardcover)

The final installment in this award-winning series brings Italian police detective Aurelio Zen to remote Calabria, where the Venice-born-and-bred detective feels uncomfortably like a foreigner.

It’s a routine assignment, and Aurelio Zen is biding his time in Calabria while the locals go about their mysterious business. Routine, that is, until an advance scout for an American film company suddenly vanishes. Beneath the surface of a tight-knit traditional community--with secrets and loyalties that go back centuries--violent forces are at work. Zen is determined to find a way to penetrate the code of silence and uncover the truth behind a brutal murder. However, his mission is complicated by another secret that has drawn strangers from the other side of the world on a hunt for buried treasure–a search that has been launched by a single-minded player with millions to spend pursuing a bizarre and deadly obsession.

It’s a devilishly suspenseful and entertaining adventure that only Aurelio Zen could stumble into--and only Michael Dibdin could serve up. In End Games, the award-winning author has crafted a suspenseful, action-packed thriller full of unexpected twists and turns--a story that takes us deep into a proud and ancient culture and into the darkest corners of the human heart.

(retrieved from Amazon Fri, 24 Apr 2009 07:58:18 -0400)

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