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Cabal: An Aurelio Zen Mystery
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Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 823.914
EAN: 9780375707704
ISBN: 0375707700
Label: Vintage
Manufacturer: Vintage
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 256
Publication Date: September 12, 2000
Publisher: Vintage
Release Date: September 12, 2000
Studio: Vintage
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Editorial Review:
In Cabal, master crime writer Michael Dibdin plunges us into a murky world of church spies, secret societies, cover-ups, and mistaken identities. An apparent suicide in the Vatican may in fact have been a muder conducted by a centuries-old cabal within The Knights of Columbus. A discovery among the medieval manuscripts of the Vatican Library leads to a second death, Zen travels to Milan, where he faces a final, dramatic showdown. Meanwhile, Zen's lover, the tantalizing Tania, is conducting her own covert operations--which could well jeopardize everything Zen has worked for. Richly textured, wickedly entertaining, Cabal taps the mysterious beauty of Italy in a thriller that challenges our beliefs about love, allegiance, history, and power--and the lengths to which we will go to protect them against the truth.
Customer Reviews
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Rating: - Murder, fashion and The Vatican: quite a combination.
I really enjoyed my first experience with, Dibdin's Aurelio Zen. A flawed and very human policeman, who is not above stating a murder was a suicide because that's what the powers that be desire, finds himself drawn into a grand conspiracy despite himself. This is a case where first impressions are definitely incorrect and despite his misgivings, Zen succeeds in resolving things in a believable, if convoluted fashion. The best part of CABAL is the ease with which Dibdin brings Italy to life. From ... Read More
Rating: - The mysterious world of the Vatican
Third in the Aurelio Zen series.
The first three books in Michael Dibdin's Aurelio Zen series read very much like a trilogy. The cast of regular characters develope throughout, and previous cases are referred to in subsequent books.
I therefore recommend that you read the series in order.
This book is as well-crafted a mystery as its predecessors. This time Zen is working in the neighbourhood of his long term residence (Rome), but there is much to explore in that city, along with ... Read More
Rating: - Another great mystery with Aurelio Zen
One dark night in November, Prince Ludovico Ruspanti falls a hundred and fifty feet to his death in St Peter's basilica in Rome. But there are a number of questions to be answered: what was he doing in the Vatican? Why was he being followed? Did he fall or was he pushed? The papal authorities contact the Criminalpol and so Inspector Aurelio Zen is put on the case.
As Zen investigated deeper into the mystery of Ruspanti's death, he finds witness after witness strangely silenced by death. Zen soon ... Read More
Rating: - Intrigue Stretching from the Vatican to Milan
As poor 50-something Aurelio juggles keeping his life with his new girlfriend, Tania, a secret from his now distressingly mobile mother with the backbiting intrigues that occur on a daily basis at the Criminalpol, he is summoned to the Vatican to assist with the investigation of the murder of a Prince Ludovico Ruspanti, a Knight of Malta, who quite literally tumbled to his death from the basilica's dome. With the tenacity of a pit bull, Zen slowly but surely cuts though the red tape dealings between the ... Read More
Rating: - The Man Who Was Giovedì
Dibdin's Italy is brilliantly realized -- not just the usual glamor-and-girls depiction of Italy from a million movies and schlock thrillers, but the realities of quotidien middle-class life, especially in the bloated public sector. Ministries operate with half their staff absent and the other half running import-export businesses from their desks on the side. Bribery, apathy, incompetence and venality are rife. Through it all trudges Aurelio Zen, trying to stitch together the pieces of a mystery that begins ... Read More
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