| By Michael Dibdin.
Toronto: Doubleday Canada. 1st Canadian edition 1999. Copyright 1999 by the author. QCR 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 on copyright page. (vii)+3-273(274) pp. Approx. 5 3/4" by 9 1/4" hardback. Dust jacket design by Evan Gaffney. Dust jacket is unclipped ($29.95). Black paper boards and black paper binding with silver lettering on spine. An Aurelio Zen mystery. |
| Binding is in Fine condition. Dust Jacket is in Fine condition with some minor rubbing. There are NO names or store stamps on the book. See scan which is extra large to allow you to see condition details. |
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Set against the backdrop of the three-thousand-year-old city of Catania, in the shadow of the smoldering volcano of Etna, Aurelio Zen is revealed at his most desperate and driven. Zen finally receives the order he has been dreading all his professional life: his next posting is to Sicily, heart of the Mafia’s power. The gruesome discovery of an unidentified, decomposed corpse sealed in a railway wagon on a deserted part of the island marks the beginning of Zen’s most difficult and dangerous case. |