And Then You Die: Michael Dibdin

Synopsis:

Aurelio Zen of Rome's elite Criminalpol is back, but nobody's supposed to know it. After months in hospital recovering from a bomb attack on his car, he is lying low under a false name at a beach resort on the Tuscan coast, waiting to testify in an imminent anti-Mafia trial. Zen has clear instructions: to sit back and enjoy the classic Italian beach holiday - relaxing in the sun, eating seafood and engaging in a little mild flirtation with the attractive woman sitting under the next umbrella. But Zen is getting restless, and as an alarming number of people are dropping dead around him, it seems just a matter of time before the Mafia manages to finish the job it bungled months before on a lonely Sicilian road.

Abruptly, the pleasant monotony of beach life is cut short as Zen finds himself transported to a remote and strange world far from home . . . and wherever he goes, trouble follows.

Tags:

Categorised as:
Fiction
Sub-categories:
Crime & Thrillers
Places:
Italy; Sicily
People & Characters:
Aurelio Zen
Genres & Themes:
Detectives; Mafia; Murder; Violence
And Then You Die book cover

Selected edition:
Paperback
ISBN:
9780571210428
Published:
02.12.2002
No of pages:
192

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