Medusa: An Aurelio Zen Mystery - Brossura

Dibdin, Michael

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ISBN 10: 0385660367 ISBN 13: 9780385660365

Casa editrice: Vintage Canada, 2005

Riassunto

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.
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Recensione

“Medusa shows the sleuth at his best.... This novel is an excellent addition to the tales of this fine and gently charismatic police detective.”
—Times-Colonist (Victoria)

“[Dibdin] has taken his incomparable talent into new territory.... Everything works with maximum suspense in this haunting tale of love, loss and revenge from beyond the grave.”
—The Globe and Mail

“Zen might safely be labeled Italy’s answer to Inspector Clouseau.”
—The Toronto Star

L'autore

Michael Dibdin was born in England and raised in Northern Ireland. He attended Sussex University and the University of Alberta in Canada. He spent five years in Perugia, Italy, where he taught English at the local university. He went on to live in Oxford, England and Seattle, Washington. He was the author of eighteen novels, eleven of them in the popular Aurelio Zen series, including Ratking, which won the Crime Writers’ Association Gold Dagger, and Cabal, which was awarded the French Grand Prix du Roman Policier. His work has been translated into eighteen languages. He died in 2007.
From the Hardcover edition.

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• Editore: Vintage Canada
• Data di pubblicazione: 2005
• ISBN 10: 0385660367
• ISBN 13: 9780385660365
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 272