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Ratking
by Michael Dibdin
- Used
- Very Good
- Paperback
- Condition
- Very Good/no dust jacket it's a paperback
- ISBN 10
- 0679768548
- ISBN 13
- 9780679768548
- Seller
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Los Angeles, California, United States
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About This Item
nice-paperback – cover is glossy- excellent copy unmarked/ no remainder markings /inscriptions/Ruth glossy miniscule amount of rubbing on edges fabulous book by-now deceased author-smallest amount of each tanning on its edges of printing first vintage crime/Black lizard edition May 1997 interestingly it has later copyright. Author 1989- --Design Megan Wilson- photograph Joshua Sheldon -/Photonica- author photograph- Isolde Olhbaum-- Italian Police Commissioner Aurelio Zen is dispatched to investigate the kidnapping of Ruggiero Miletti, a powerful Perugian industrialist. But nobody much wants Zen to succeed: not the local authorities, who view him as an interloper, and certainly not Miletti's children, who seem content to let the head of the family languish in the hands of his abductors--if he's still alive. Was Miletti truly the victim of professionals? Or might his kidnapper be someone closer to home: his preening son Daniele, with his million-lire wardrobe and his profitable drug business? His daughter, Cinzia, whose vapid beauty conceals a devastating secret? The perverse Silvio, or the eldest son Pietro, the unscrupulous fixer who manipulates the plots of others for his own ends? As Zen tries to unravel this rat's nest of family intrigue and official complicity-Winner of the Crime Writers Association Gold Dagger Award-- see pictures maybe this will do it! - make an informed buying decision-At least you know what you're getting into I have-good description-- All photos shown are actual pictures no stock images. What you see is what you will receive.-Ruth Reaser..LAX Vespa,Los Angeles -you get the copy you were viewing carefully packed to protect it from damage in transit. – additional questions answered through customer service phone number or minor messaging e-mail- -Ratking -Author -Michael Dibdin- Publisher May -1997-Vintage Crime/Black Lizard- Random House Publishing Group, - ISBN- 0307822516, 9780307822512- Length -266 pages- Subjects Fiction ' Mystery & Detective ' Police Procedural Fiction / Mystery & Detective / Crime/ --Ruth Reaser..LAXVespa Los Angeles /Culver City --Ruth Reaser..LAXVespa Los Angeles /Culver City
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
- Ruth Reaser LAXVESPA
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 3249
- Title
- Ratking
- Author
- Michael Dibdin
- Illustrator
- --Design Megan Wilson- photograph Joshua Sheldon -/Photonica- author photograph- Isolde Olhbaum--
- Format/Binding
- Glued spine
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- no dust jacket it's a paperback
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Paperback
- ISBN 10
- 0679768548
- ISBN 13
- 9780679768548
- Publisher
- Vintage Crime/Black Lizard- Random House
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1997-04-29
- Keywords
- -Ratking -Author -Michael Dibdin- Publisher May -1997-Vintage Crime/Black Lizard- Random House Publishing Group, - ISBN- 0307822516, 9780307822512- Length -266 pages- Subjects Fiction › Mystery & Detective › Police Procedural Fiction / Mystery & Detec
- Bookseller catalogs
- FIC022000 FICTION / Mystery & Detective / General;
Terms of Sale
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About the Seller
Ruth Reaser LAXVESPA
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Los Angeles, California
About Ruth Reaser LAXVESPA
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