RATKING
by DIBDIN Michael
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very good, with some yellowing to pages. In good+ unclipped dust jacket, with some light creasing along top edge, a little fadin
- ISBN 10
- 0571151477
- ISBN 13
- 9780571151479
- Seller
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About This Item
London,, 1988. First Edition. Hardback. Dust Jacket.. Very good, with some yellowing to pages. In good+ unclipped dust jacket, with some light creasing along top edge, a little fading towards spine and a small water mark to verso.. 8vo. pp [vi], 282. Illustrated dust jacket. Publisher's black buckram lettered in white at spine. First edition.ISBN: 0571151477
Synopsis
Police Commissioner Aurelio Zen has crossed swords with the establishment before - and lost. But from the depths of a mundane desk job in Rome he is unexpectedly transferred to Perugia to take over an explosive kidnapping case involving one of Italy's most powerful families.
Reviews
On Aug 17 2011, Daniel_Baumgartner said:
This book was complicated but fun, a sort of Borgia family saga, but I had a problem in the beginning trying to keep Italian names straight, like the spaghetti aisle at the grocery store, so I made a list of all parties! The Aurelio Zen series has been produced for PBS and Ratking and one other book in the series were liberally cribbed and totally plot changed. Once I got over the idea that the TV production bore little resemblance to the book, I enjoyed it for what it was. I hear Michael Dibdin is not loved in Italy his sometimes scathing portrayals of Italian political and police life, and justly so. But that isn't his fault!
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Details
- Bookseller
- Any Amount of Books (GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- C66846
- Title
- RATKING
- Author
- DIBDIN Michael
- Book Condition
- Used - Very good, with some yellowing to pages. In good+ unclipped dust jacket, with some light creasing along top edge, a little fadin
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition. Hardback. Dust Jacket.
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 0571151477
- ISBN 13
- 9780571151479
- Publisher
- Faber And Faber
- Place of Publication
- London,
- Date Published
- 1988
- Keywords
- Modern First Editions
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