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Ratking [eBook - NC Digital Library] : Aurelio Zen Series, Book 1 by Dibdin, Michael is a work of fiction available to read on EtoBox.

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In this masterpiece 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 police procedure and psychological suspense. Review 'The best detective novelist around.' Sunday Times From the Publisher Ruth Rendell wrote of Ratking : "Tremendously exciting ... This is a novel both su

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Author
Dibdin, Michael
Publisher
San Val
Published
1988
Language
EN
ISBN
9780307822482
Category
work of fiction
Subjects
Fiction, True Crime, Literary Fiction
Rating
3.43 / 5 (158 ratings)
Updated
2026-03-14

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