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 Dirty Tricks - Michael Dibdin
 Dirty Tricks - Michael Dibdin ... several years abroad. His adulterous affair with a friend's wife leads first to the death of the friend, then to the death of the wife, and finally to the death of his boss. By the author of Vendetta and Ratking.Newest Review: ... surely, we are led to see how the unthinkable becomes the inevitable, and there is a second murder which drastically changes ... more ... the fortunes of our not so intrepid narrator. He gives new meaning to the phrase "upwardly mobile". A third murder, the cherry on the proverbial gateau, seals his fate. Or will the cogs of justice deal the blind-folded lady a sidelining blow, thereby saving our (anti-)hero? You should know me better than to think I'll give away anything more - doing s
o would be both presumptuous on my side (a story artfully constructed by ...more |
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Dirty Tricks - Michael Dibdin: Very DIRTY stuff (1060 words)
by - written on 22/08/01 (Very useful, 173 readings)
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I'm in a foul mood. I'm working fourteen hour days just two days after returning from a week's holiday abroad, thus immediately draining any energy I had built up in said holiday. I survived an assassination attempt by a Dubliner cook who decided to try his hand at food poisoning on this poor man. And I'm at war with my credit card company (not for defaulting on payment [this time!], I hasten to add, but merely due to said bank's incompetence). So bear with me if I ramble somewhat. Oh dear, I did, didn't I? But you're here to read about Michael Dibdin's book, so off we go. First of all, DIRTY TRICKS is not an Aurelio Zen mystery - ... Read the complete review
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