Author: Michael Dibdin Year: 2003 Rank: Rating: Original Rating: Pop Rating: Genres/categories: Mystery, Thriller Culture: Italy
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ISBNs: 9781400076086 9780571219858 0571219853 |
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Michael Dibdin's veteran Italian police officer is back. The newest addition to this remarkable series -- consistently galvanizing as much for its revelation of the subtle complexities of Italian life as for its page-turning suspense -- is a novel of long-held secrets set against a sweeping background of political and passionate intrigue. When a group of Austrian cavers exploring a network of abandoned military tunnels in the Italian Alps comes across human remains at the bottom of a deep shaft, everyone assumes the death was accidental. Until, that is, the still-unidentified body is stolen from the morgue and the Defense Ministry puts a news blackout on the case. And is the recent car bombing in Campione D'Italia, a tiny tax haven surrounded on all sides by Switzerland, somehow related? The whole affair has the whiff of political corruption. That's enough to interest Aurelio Zen's boss at the Interior Ministry, who wants to know who is hiding what from whom, and why. The search for the truth leads Zen back into the murky history of postwar Italy and the obscure corners of modern-day society to uncover the truth about a crime that everyone thought was as dead and buried as its victim.
This book is part of the "Aurelio Zen" series. Here are some other books from this series:
 | "Back to Bologna" First published in 2003 Rank: , Original star rating: , Adjusted star rating: , Pop rating: |
 | "And Then You Die" First published in 2002 Rank: , Original star rating: , Adjusted star rating: , Pop rating: |
 | "Blood Rain" First published in 1999 Rank: , Original star rating: , Adjusted star rating: , Pop rating: |
 | "A Long Finish" First published in 1998 Rank: , Original star rating: , Adjusted star rating: , Pop rating: |
 | "Cosi Fan Tutti" First published in 1996 Rank: , Original star rating: , Adjusted star rating: , Pop rating: |
 | "Dead Lagoon" First published in 1994 Rank: , Original star rating: , Adjusted star rating: , Pop rating: |
 | "Cabal" First published in 1992 Rank: , Original star rating: , Adjusted star rating: , Pop rating: |
 | "Vendetta" First published in 1990 Rank: , Original star rating: , Adjusted star rating: , Pop rating: |
 | "Ratking" First published in 1988 Rank: , Original star rating: , Adjusted star rating: , Pop rating: |
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