{"product_id":"ratking-9780679768548","title":"Ratking","description":"\u003cb\u003eWinner of the Crime Writers Association Gold Dagger Award, this chilling police procedural is a masterpiece of\u003cb\u003e psychological suspense. \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eItalian 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Michael Dibdin\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Vintage Crime\/Black Lizard\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 04\/29\/1997\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 272\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.45lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.28h x 4.98w x 0.56d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780679768548\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e 05\/19\/1997\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMichael Dibdin was born in England and raised in Northern Ireland. He attended Sussex University and the University of Alberta in Canada. He spent five years in Perugia, Italy, where he taught English at the local university. He went on to live in Oxford, England and Seattle, Washington. He was the author of eighteen novels, eleven of them in the popular Aurelio Zen series, including \u003ci\u003eRatking\u003c\/i\u003e, which won the Crime Writers' Association Gold Dagger, and \u003ci\u003eCabal\u003c\/i\u003e, which was awarded the French Grand Prix du Roman Policier. His work has been translated into eighteen languages. He died in 2007.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Vintage Crime\/Black Lizard","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":43128127914099,"sku":"9.78068E+12","price":22.95,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0555\/9255\/0515\/files\/img_007f856a-d30b-4f64-b46a-05f25b51004a.jpg?v=1749731366","url":"https:\/\/bookstorenmore.com\/en-de\/products\/ratking-9780679768548","provider":"Bookstore N More","version":"1.0","type":"link"}