Ratking (An Aurelio Zen Mystery, 1)

Michael Dibdin

ISBN 10: 1491573511 ISBN 13: 9781491573518

Publisher: Brilliance Audio, 2015

Synopsis

The first novel in Michael Dibdin's scintillating Aurelio Zen series and the winner of a Gold Dagger award

A powerful industrialist Ruggiero Miletti is kidnapped. Inspector Zen is transferred to Perugia to take over the case, but finds that there are many obstacles in his way. The local authorities see him as an interloper, and the victim’s family, one of the most powerful in Italy, seems content to let Miletti languish in the hands of his abductors. Zen has crossed swords with the establishment before—and lost. Can he succeed this time?

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From the Publisher

Ruth Rendell wrote of Ratking:

"Tremendously exciting ... This is a novel both subtle and horrific."

And the praise doesn't stop there. Here's what people are saying about Michael Dibdin's work:

"Dibdin's work deserves comparison with such ... giants as Raymond Chandler."
-- Portland Oregonian

"Dibdin has an ear for prose that is rare in the crime genre ... His soaring imagination ... makes his books well worth the read."
-- Washington Times

"Dibdin has a gift for shocking the unshockable reader. He writes the unmentionable, calmly and with devastating effect."
-- Ruth Rendell

From the Inside Flap

erpiece of psychological suspense, 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, Michael Dibdin gives us one of his most accomplished thrillers, a chilling masterpiece of poli

About this edition

• Publisher: Brilliance Audio
• Publication date: 2015
• ISBN 10: 1491573511
• ISBN 13: 9781491573518
• Binding: MP3 CD