End Games is Michael Dibdin's 11th Aurelio Zen novel, published posthumously as he unfortunately passed away out of the blue earlier this year, at the age of only 60. His untimely death is made all the sadder by the fact that End Games marks a brilliant return to form for the series after a recent dip in quality. End Games combines brutal, gritty violence with wild, observant satire and a beautiful descriptive writing style.
The (anti-) hero Aurelio Zen is Dibdin's vessel for all these traits as he is a strictly moral, determined individual who on occasion is very lazy. In End Games he is sent to a remote region of Italy to investigate a kidnapping, followed by a gruesome murder. Not before long Zen is having to deal with a secret treasure hunt, the shooting of a Hollywood biblical epic, Wild-West style banditry and feudal disputes between peasants and landowners.
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For The January Interview - A Little Wine with Michael Dibdin, click here
Michael Dibdin will be a loss to us all - British crime fiction has lost one of it's best authors. With the release of End Games, one of his greatest works, this is a great opportunity to start following the Aurelio Zen series which is one of the finest around. If you are new to the series read Ratking which was recommended to me and got me hooked and if you want to explore Michael Dibdin's other writing try the Last Sherlock Holmes Story.
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