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2004 Award
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And Then You Die by Michael Dibdin |
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ABOUT
THE BOOK
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| Aurelio
Zen of Rome's elite Criminalpol is back, but nobody's supposed to know it.
After months in hospital recovering from a bomb attack on his car, he is
lying low under a false name at a beach resort on the Tuscan Coast, waiting
to testify in an imminent anti-Mafia trial. Zen has clear instructions:
to sit back and enjoy the classic Italian beach holiday - lying in the sun
in his assigned chair on a well-managed strip of pale sand, eating seafood
and engaging in a little mild flirtation with the attractive woman sitting
under the next umbrella. But Zen is getting restless, and as an alarming
number of people are dropping dead around him, it seems just a matter of
time before the mafia manage to finish the job they bungled months before
on a lonely Sicilian road. Abruptly, the pleasant monotony of beach life is cut short as Zen finds himself transported to a remote and strange world far from home, and wherever he goes, trouble follows. He must rely on his highly developed survival skills and his innate ability to navigate treacherous waters in order to stay alive. |
| ABOUT THE AUTHOR |
| Michael Dibdin was born in 1947, and attended schools in Scotland and Ireland and universities in England and Canada. He lives in Seattle, USA and is married to the writer Kathrine Beck. |
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