Ratking An Aurelio Zen Mystery

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  • Engels
  • Paperback
  • 9780679768548
  • 29 april 1997
  • 266 pagina's
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Police Commissioner Aurelio Zen of Rome becomes involved in the kidnapping of Perugian industrialist Ruggiero Miletti, a case that quickly plummets into a crime of murder and leads Zen into dangerous and shocking territory in the ancient city. Reprint. 12,500 first printing.

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en
Bindwijze
Paperback
Oorspronkelijke releasedatum
29 april 1997
Aantal pagina's
266
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Nee

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Hoofdauteur
Michael Dibdin
Tweede Auteur
Nick Salvatore
Hoofduitgeverij
Random House Inc

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Nee
Product breedte
133 mm
Product hoogte
19 mm
Product lengte
216 mm
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Nee
Verpakking breedte
133 mm
Verpakking hoogte
19 mm
Verpakking lengte
216 mm
Verpakkingsgewicht
227 g

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9780679768548

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  • Brilliant tutorial about kidnapping

    Rereading this book after many years was a real feast. It was MD’s breakthrough and earned him a coveted award too. He has made excellent use of his teaching years in Italy to create an enthralling series of police procedurals and this is the first. MD’s hero is Aurelio Zen, a native of Venice but really hailing from Fiume, now Rijeka, Croatia and was once specialized in kidnapping & ransom cases. Early on, Zen is portrayed as scapegoat for police incompetence re Aldo Moro, an Italian top politician kidnapped by left wing radicals, eventually found dead in a car booth in 1978 [and as a divorced man with a US lady friend, living in a cramped flat in Rome with his old mother and her life-long cook and caretaker]. Since the Aldo Moro fiasco, Zen has been put on ice, inspecting in a vague, non-investigative capacity and from Rome, Italy’s provincial police forces.
    MD’s deep understanding of moods and facts in (pre-)1980s Italy is truly awesome and deftly woven into the plot. Here, Zen is once more forced to investigate a kidnapping with a ransom paid, another demanded. The victim is a prominent industrialist from Perugia, a town he is not familiar with. Throughout, fierce stereotyping about culture and dialect intersect with Italy’s North-South divide and add weight to what the title is about. MD shows how in the 1980s Italy’s legislature, judiciary and executive were not only linked but also intertwined with the Mafia and other pressure groups…
    Thanks to his frequent inspections of often hostile provincial police forces, Zen has become a diplomat keenly aware of body language, false rhetoric and possible intrigue. Given the challenges he faces from the immediate family of the kidnap victim and other stakeholders, success is unlikely. Bringing this kidnapping to a satisfactory conclusion will not revive his stalled career, not in Italy of the Rat King. Great background and attention to detail. Brilliantly plotted and beautifully written.

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