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Vendetta
β Scribed by Michael Dibdin
- Publisher
- Faber and Faber;Hear A Book
- Year
- 1999;1993
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 169 KB
- Category
- Fiction
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β¦ Synopsis
SUMMARY:
In Italian police inspector Aurelio Zen, Michael Dibdin has given the mystery one of its most complex and compelling protagonists: a man wearily trying to enforce the law in a society where the law is constantly being bent. In this, the first novel he appears in, Zen himself has been assigned to do some law bending. Officials in a high government ministry want him to finger someone--anyone--for the murder of an eccentric billionaire, whose corrupt dealings enriched some of the most exalted figures in Italian politics.
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