Ratking
by DIBDIN, Michael
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- See description
- Seller
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Quinton, Northamptonshire, United Kingdom
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About This Item
Faber, 1988. 1st edition. Hardcover. Fine in fine dustwrapper, some slight page tanning as is usual with this book. An exceptionally nice copy of the first of the author's Aurelio Zen crime novels.
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
- Shellhouse Books (GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- PSHB4401
- Title
- Ratking
- Author
- DIBDIN, Michael
- Book Condition
- Used
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Faber, 1988
- Keywords
- Fiction
- Bookseller catalogs
- Mystery & Detective;
Terms of Sale
Shellhouse Books
Items may be returned within 7 days, after discussion with vendor, and in same condition as when sent
About the Seller
Shellhouse Books
Biblio member since 2007
Quinton, Northamptonshire
About Shellhouse Books
Shellhouse Books offers a range of modern first editions, of high quality, many of which are rare and uncommon. Specialities are English fiction and poetry, travel and some children's books and science fiction titles.
Glossary
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- Fine
- A book in fine condition exhibits no flaws. A fine condition book closely approaches As New condition, but may lack the...
- Dustwrapper
- Also known as book jacket, dust cover, or dust wrapper, a dust jacket is a protective and decorative cover for a book that is...