End Games

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Aurelio Zen is posted to remote Calabria, at the toe of the Italian boot. And beneath the surface of a tight-knit, traditional community he discovers that violent forces are at work. There has been a brutal murder. Zen is determined to find a way to penetrate the code of silence and uncover the truth. But his mission is complicated by another secret which has drawn strangers from the other side of the world - a hunt for buried treasure launched by a single-minded player with millions to spend pursuing his bizarre and deadly obsession.

Reviews

" Supremely talented and enormously witty."
-- "Globe and Mail"
" One of an elite cadre of crime fiction writers for whom literary critics break out all of their favorite adjectives."
-- "January Magazine"
" Michael Dibdin' s policiers are more addictive than crack cocaine."
-- "The Guardian" (U.K.)
" [Dibdin] remains a class act, his vignettes of Italy as sharp as ever, his laconic hero impossible to resist."
-- "Sunday Telegraph" (U.K.)
" Supremely talented and enormously witty. "
-- Globe and Mail
" One of an elite cadre of crime fiction writers for whom literary critics break out all of their favorite adjectives. "
-- January Magazine
" Michael Dibdin ' s policiers are more addictive than crack cocaine. "
-- The Guardian (U.K.)
" [Dibdin] remains a class act, his vignettes of Italy as sharp as ever, his laconic hero impossible to resist. "
-- Sunday Telegraph (U.K.)
"Supremely talented and enormously witty."
-- "Globe and Mail"
"One of an elite cadre of crime fiction writers for whom literary critics break out all of their favorite adjectives."
-- "January Magazine"
"Michael Dibdin's policiers are more addictive than crack cocaine."
-- "The Guardian" (U.K.)
"[Dibdin] remains a class act, his vignettes of Italy as sharp as ever, his laconic hero impossible to resist."
-- "Sunday Telegraph" (U.K.)
"Didbin's Italy-based Aurelio Zen tales are among the best in the mystery genre."
--"The Boston Globe
""Didbin has an abundance of gifts: bracing wit, the ability to wring unexpected poignance out of dark comedy, and a gift for striking imagery."
--"The Wall Street Journal
""Didbin belongs to that hierarchy of innovative stylists who make it a point of honor never to repeat a singal trick."
--"The New York Times Book Review
""Didbin's work deserves comparison with such...giants as Raymond Chandler."
--"The Oregonian
""Didbin is esential reading for those who love mysteries and Italy without illusions."
--"The Washington Post"

"From the Hardcover edition."

Author Bio

Michael Dibdin was born in 1947, and attended schools in Scotland and Ireland and universities in England and Canada. He is the author of the internationally bestselling Inspector Zen Mystery series. The first novel in the series, Ratking, won the Crime Writers' Association Gold Dagger. Other titles in the series include Medusa, Back to Bologna and End Games. He died in 2007.