About this title: Set against the backdrop of the 3,000-year-old city of Catania, in the shadow of the smoldering volcano of Etna, "Blood Rain" reveals Inspector Aurelio Zen at his most desperate and driven, as he undertakes a case more chilling and threatening than any he has faced before.
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Description: Good. Ex-Library book-will contain library markings. Almost in new condition. Book shows only very slight signs of use. Cover and binding are undamaged and pages show minimal use. Millions of satisfied customers and climbing. Thriftbooks is the name you can trust, guaranteed. Spend Less. Read More. read more
Description: Good. Former Library book. Shows some signs of wear, and may have some markings on the inside. Shipped to over one million happy customers. Your purchase benefits world literacy! read more
Description: Acceptable. Former Library book. Shows definite wear, and perhaps considerable marking on inside. Shipped to over one million happy customers. Your purchase benefits world literacy! read more
Description: Good. 2001-Paperback----Used-Good-Hall Street Books proudly ships from Brooklyn, NY. All orders are processed and shipped within 24 hours, M-F. 100% money back No-Worry guarantee with expedited delivery and delivery confirmation available. read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Pantheon
Date Published: 2000-03-28
ISBN-13:9780375409158ISBN:0375409157
Description: Good. This is an ex library copy binding tight pages clean with usual markings. Every heavytail order includes with a sweet! We carefully hand clean and reinspect each and every item we ship. Our quality control process ensures items to be in the condition described or better. Heavytail is determined to earn your repeat business through old fashioned customer service. We love international orders. read more
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Vintage
Date Published: 2001-05-08
ISBN-13:9780375708305ISBN:0375708308
Description: Good. Every heavytail order includes with a sweet! We carefully hand clean and reinspect each and every item we ship. Our quality control process ensures items to be in the condition described or better. Heavytail is determined to earn your repeat business through old fashioned customer service. We love international orders. read more
Description: Very Good. 0375708308 light shelf wear / edge wear cover / pages light discoloration around edges//"Buy with Confidence-Satisfaction Guaranteed! Customer Service Makes All the Difference. " read more
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Vintage
Date Published: 2001
ISBN-13:9780375708305ISBN:0375708308
Description: Very Good. Text pages clean & tight with no markings or highlighting. Cover has scattered scratches. Detective Aurelio Zen has just been assigned to the heart of hostile territory: Sicily. Extremely readable copy. read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Pantheon
Date Published: 2000-03-28
ISBN-13:9780375409158ISBN:0375409157
Description: Good. Book is autographed by author...Dust jacket has some slight wear...Hard Cover has some slight wear, dent on bottom edge, small split from tip to dent about one inch, tips are bent...Pages are in excellent shape... read more
Edition: First American Edition
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Pantheon Books, New York, New York, U.S.A.
Date Published: 2000
ISBN-13:9780375409158ISBN:0375409157
Description: Very Good in Very Good jacket. Ex-Library. 8vo-over 7¾"-9¾" tall. Nice tight copy with usual library markings. Text is clean and unmarked. DJ has clear mylar cover. read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Pantheon Books, New York, New York, U.S.A.
Date Published: 2000
ISBN-13:9780375409158ISBN:0375409157
Description: Very Good in Very Good jacket. Book. 8vo-over 7? "-9? " tall. Signed by Author(s) Signed by Mr. Dibdin to title page; Very Good/Very Good in Black Boards; 273 pages; Text clean and unmarked; Minor rubbing to DJ; Crease to rear panel of DJ; DJ in archival mylar jacket; All orders tracked. read more
Edition: First Printing
Binding: Softcover
Publisher: Faber and Faber, London
Date Published: 1999
ISBN-13:9780571201747ISBN:0571201741
Description: Very Good. 8vo-over 7¾"-9¾" tall. (UK) No markings, hint of spine slant, Very Good. Wraps, 284pp. Inspector Zen is sent ot Sicily to deal with a corpse sealed in a railway wagon: Dibdin has the gift for shocking the unshockable reader. (1.8 JM FO 32/0. read more
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Vintage
Date Published: 2001
ISBN-13:9780375708305ISBN:0375708308
Description: New. Brand New! Buy with confidence-your satisfaction is guaranteed at B-Logistics! Due to the large scale of our operation, we do not have access to the specific contents/condition of our items. Please note that Expedited shipping is not available at this time. read more
Binding: Softcover
Publisher: Vintage Books
Date Published: 2001-05-01
ISBN-13:9780375708305ISBN:0375708308
Description: NEW. Softcover. From an inventory that is 100% brand-new, 100% direct from the publishers' distribution channel. We carry NO pre-owned, NO remaindered. We pack in CARDBOARD to ensure the pristine quality is maintained. (Bubble-wrap alone is NOT sufficient to protect from USPS equipment. ) Guaranteed brand-NEW, protected with CARDBOARD, your satisfaction is guaranteed. BKLUVID: 9780375708305. read more
"There are a number of police detective novels set in Italy, and all contain some element of social comment on the day to day bizzareness of Italian life. Michael Dibdin began this book with a chapter that has to be the funniest story about a short trip by freight train ever written, which at the same explains a lot about Sicily, and why,even by Italian standards, the triangular island is very strange.
In justice, the story is only so-so thereafter, and includes some fairly meandering elements, which is why it has not gotten better marks. The book also steadily gets darker, page by page in the last third of the story.
Well researched, well written, and if you like Inspectore Zen, worth it."
"Despite his best efforts to please everyone and keep out of trouble, the veteran Italian Criminalpol officer Aurelio Zen has made more enemies than friends over the years. Now it's payoff time. After his last case, amid the gentle hills and lush vineyards of Piedmont, Zen finally receives the order he has been dreading all his professional life: his next posting is to Sicily, heart of the Mafia's power.
The gruesome discovery of an unidentified, decomposed corpse sealed in a railway wagon on a deserted part of the island marks the beginning of Zen's most difficult and dangerous case. And indeed, it soon turns out that he will need all his cunning and skill to survive in a world where unwritten rules are enforced with ruthless violence, where one false step can prove fatal, and where the truth must be paid for in blood...""
"Too violent for my taste but then my husband tells me that's because it's set in Sicily. The cliffhanger ending did send me scrambling for the next in the series, though!"
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