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will love Sign up for LibraryThing to find out whether you'll like this book. 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.... ( )Reviewed in Mystery Scene. no reviews | add a review
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) The first test round has been closed. Visit the Open Shelves Classification group for details. |
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