Book description
When a group of Austrian cavers exploring a network of abandoned
military tunnels in the Italian alps come across human remains at the
bottom of a deep shaft, everyone assumes the death was accidental -
until the still unidentified body is stolen from the morgue and the
Defence Ministry puts a news blackout on the case. And is the recent
car bombing in Campione d'Italia, a tiny tax haven surrounded on all
sides by Switzerland, somehow related? The whole affair has the whiff
of political intrigue. That's enough to interest Aurelio Zen's boss at
the Interior Ministry, who wants to know who is hiding what from who
and why. The search for the truth leads Zen back into the murky
history of post-war Italy and obscure corners of modern-day society to
uncover the truth about a crime that everyone thought was as dead and
buried as the victim.
Michael Dibdin was born in 1947, and attended schools in
Scotland and Ireland and universities in England and Canada. He is the
author of the internationally bestselling Aurelio Zen series, which
includes And Then You Die, Back to Bologna and, most recently, End
Games. He died in 2007.
