Hardcover, 256 pages
Published June 18, 2002 by Faber and Faber.
Hardcover, 256 pages
Published June 18, 2002 by Faber and Faber.
Aurelio Zen of Rome's 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. 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 manages to finish the job they bungled months before on a lonely Sicilian road ...