- Paperback: 304 pages
- Publisher: Faber and Faber; New edition edition (5 Aug 2004)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0571161650
- ISBN-13: 978-0571161652
- Product Dimensions: 17.6 x 11 x 2.2 cm
- Average Customer Review: 4.4 out of 5 stars See all reviews (9 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 286,355 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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Inspector Zen has a problem: an impossible murder, recorded on the closed-circuit video of Oscar Burolo's top-security Sardinian fortress. As Zen gets to work, he is once again plunged into a menacing and violent world where his own life is soon at risk. 'This is to the ordinary crime pot-boiler as a Ferrari to a Mini. He writes and plots like a dream.' The Scotsman
About the Author
Michael Dibdin was born in 1947. He went to school in Northern Ireland, and later to Sussex University and the University of Alberta in Canada. He lived in Seattle. After completing his first novel, The Last Sherlock Holmes Story, in 1978, he spent four years in Italy teaching English at the University of Perugia. His second novel, A Rich Full Death, was published in 1986. It was followed by Ratking in 1988, which won the Gold Dagger Award for the Best Crime Novel of the year and introduced us to his Italian detective - Inspector Aurelio Zen. In 1989 The Tryst was published to great acclaim and was followed by Vendetta in 1990, the second story in the Zen series. Dirty Tricks was published in 1991. Inspector Zen made his third appearance in Cabal, which was published in 1992. The Dying of the Light, an Agatha Christie pastiche, was published in 1993. His fourth Zen novel, Dead Lagoon, was published the following year. His next novel, Dark Spectre, was published in 1995. Two more Zen novels followed: Cosi Fan Tutti, set in Naples, was published in 1996 and A Long Finish was published in 1998. Blood Rain, the seventh Zen novel, was published in 1999. Thanksgiving was published in 2000, with the eighth Zen, And Then You Die, appearing in 2002. Aurelio Zen returned in Medusa, in August 2003, and then again in Back to Bologna in 2005. His last novel, End Games, was published posthumously in July 2007.
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20 of 21 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
Almost perfect,
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This review is from: Vendetta (Zen) (Paperback)
Aurelio Zen switches to Sardinia to solve a grisly crime. Several people are murdered in the same incident, which is captured on video, although the murderer is not. Zen is under political pressure to ensure that one particular suspect is not arrested for the crime.
I continue to have trouble warming to Zen - he is a loner and his relationships with nearly all characters in the book are strange. However, this is one of the most beautifully written crime novels I've read. The plot is not overly complex but it is not difficult to keep turning the pages. There is a good well-thought-out twist to round things off. But the strengths of this book lie in the quality of writing and the insights shown by the author. The novel is one of Dibdin's earlier efforts and it was a relief to see that crimes can get solved without internet searches and mobile phones, which probably says something about the other crime novels I've been reading lately! In short, a simple story, but very impressive writing.
8 of 9 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars
Aurelio Zen in top shape,
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This review is from: Vendetta (Isis) (Audio Cassette)
Vice-Questore Aurelio Zen, officer of the Criminalpol section of the Ministry of Interior in Rome, is entrusted with a video cassette connected to the sensational "Burolo Affair" about which Zen has to write a report summarising the case to date. Since Oscar Burolo had a mania of recording the highpoints of his life, the video tape shows a dinner party at his extravagant villa in Sardinia, when suddenly Oscar and his party reel away from shotgun blasts apparently coming from nowhere, the murderer having passed through the elaborate electronic defences of the property as if they didn't exist.But when, sometime later, a pickpocket manages to steal the video cassette while Zen is boarding a bus and when Zen is summoned to the Palazzo Sisti and asked by "l'onorevole" to go to Sardinia and fake some evidence in order to withdraw the charges against the main suspect Renato Favelloni, the inspector is about to start one of the most dangerous investigation in his career. Very good action-packed thriller with breathtaking scenes in Sardinia and an Aurelio Zen in full swing! Michael Tudor Barnes delivers a stunning performance reading "Vendetta".
18 of 21 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars
Enjoy the unravelling of this spaghetti thriller !,
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This review is from: Vendetta (Zen) (Paperback)
This is an excellent read full of evocative prose conjuring up three dimensional characters and vivid backdrops. The Italian cop, Aurelio Zen, is the sort of incorruptible loner that one expects of this genre of detective story, but he does not dazzle you with his confident intelligence or attractive lifestyle. Rather, one is drawn by his dogged pursuit of his profession and forgive his human failings as he makes his way through departmental rivalries and suspicious events that could be as much to do with his personal life as the case he's on. Dibdin clearly knows his territory well, and sweeps you through it without labouring the points. His prose is excellent, the pace well matched to the character and the final expose beautifully expressed to encourage you to pick up the next Zen book . . !
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