RATKING.
by Dibdin, Michael
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Fine in a very good dustjacket (short closed tear to back cover, other minor wear, now protected by an archival cover.)/very good
- ISBN 10
- 055305337X
- ISBN 13
- 9780553053371
- Seller
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Ione, California, United States
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About This Item
New York:: Bantam,, (1989.). Hardcover first edition -. Fine in a very good dustjacket (short closed tear to back cover, other minor wear, now protected by an archival cover.). First US printing. A mystery and novel of psychological suspense introducing Roman Police Commissioner Aurelio Zen - Ruth Rendall described this first book as transcending its genre - "tremendously exciting ... both subtle and horrific." Winner of the CWA Gold Dagger Award. 266 pp.
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
- Bookfever.com, IOBA (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 52204
- Title
- RATKING.
- Author
- Dibdin, Michael
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover first edition -
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine in a very good dustjacket (short closed tear to back cover, other minor wear, now protected by an archival cover.)
- Jacket Condition
- very good
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 055305337X
- ISBN 13
- 9780553053371
- Publisher
- Bantam,
- Place of Publication
- New York:
- Date Published
- (1989.)
- Keywords
- Aurelio Zen, rome, italy, CWA Gold Dagger Award
- Bookseller catalogs
- Mystery - Suspense & Detective Fiction;
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