End games : an Aurelio Zen mystery
Dibdin, Michael
End games : an Aurelio Zen mystery / Michael Dibdin - 1st Vintage Crime/Black Lizard ed - New York : Vintage Books , c2007 - 335 p. ; 21 cm - Vintage Crime/Black Lizard .
The final installment in this 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 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."--BOOK JACKET.
English
9780307386724
Zen, Aurelio (Fictitious character)----Fiction
Police---Italy----Fiction
Americans---Italy----Fiction
Motion picture locations----Fiction
Calabria (Italy)----Fiction
Mystery fiction
Humorous fiction
MYS DIB
End games : an Aurelio Zen mystery / Michael Dibdin - 1st Vintage Crime/Black Lizard ed - New York : Vintage Books , c2007 - 335 p. ; 21 cm - Vintage Crime/Black Lizard .
The final installment in this 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 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."--BOOK JACKET.
English
9780307386724
Zen, Aurelio (Fictitious character)----Fiction
Police---Italy----Fiction
Americans---Italy----Fiction
Motion picture locations----Fiction
Calabria (Italy)----Fiction
Mystery fiction
Humorous fiction
MYS DIB
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