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 End Games - Michael Dibdin
 End Games - Michael Dibdin ... FaberNewest Review: ... was it, the author had rounded Aurelio Zen's career off so-to-speak and had declared in an interview, "If you get bored, ... more ... change the continent." After that he moved to the USA.
I admired this consistency and thought him a man of principles, imagine my surprise when another book featuring Aurelio Zen was published, 'And then you die' (2002). And then another, 'Medusa' (2003). I read both for old times' sake and was disappointed twice, Dibdin had clearly lost his grip. When 'Back to Bologna' was published in 2005, I refused to read it, I was embarrassed for Mr Dibdin. I don't know what came over me so that I bought 'End Games' ...more |
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End Games - Michael Dibdin: Moronic Millionaire (1117 words)
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"The dead man parked his car at the edge of the town..." What? A *dead* man parked a car? A typo? No, the brill first sentence of Michael Dibdin's last thriller 'End Games'. Who would not read on to understand the mystery? The 'dead man' is an American lawyer, the scout of a film company, sent to Cosenza, a town in the Italian region of Calabria, to prepare the shooting of a film. He's kidnapped, though, but no ransom is asked, instead his kidnappers 'dressed him up as a corpse, made him walk to a village someplace, then blew his head off'. Police investigator Aurelio Zen, sent from Rome to substitute the Chief of Police, has to ... Read the complete review
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