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Chargement... Orage de sang (1999)par Michael Dibdin
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Inscrivez-vous à LibraryThing pour découvrir si vous aimerez ce livre Actuellement, il n'y a pas de discussions au sujet de ce livre. I am still reeling from the ending! But I won't spoil it for you - just say that Zen seemed more like himself in this 7th book than he did in the previous one, despite being stationed in Sicily. ( ) Sin hacer nada Zen hace todo, enviado a Sicilia a un puesto como para no hacer nada. Recibe allí la visita de su hija, y ella como especialista en computación trabaja para la agencia anti mafia y descubre un topo adentro, además en el medio un crimen de un mafioso que se lo quieren tirar a otra familia, como para empezar una guerra. En medio Zen como siempre queriendo pasar desapercibido queda en medio de todo Zen trata de sobrevivir y castigar a quienes mataron a su hija. My wife read this one before me, and commented that it was the goriest. I responded, "Is it set in Sicily?" and she laughed, for it is. Dibdin continues to play with both international and Italian stereotypes about the people of the different regions of Italy. So, we get lots of gore, meetings of powerful men, family feuds and so forth, but we also get a sense of the odd foreignness, to most Italians, of Sicily and Sicilians. I like this series. Warning: This review probably contains spoilers. In this installment of the Aurelio Zen series, Zen is sent to Sicily on assignment as a "liaison officer" (read as "spy") with the anti-Mafia squad. His job is to report back to Rome on the squad's morale and any signs of discontent. In the meantime, he is also getting to know his adopted daughter, Carla, who works as a computer technician for a company that is bringing the anti-Mafia squad online (or as Dibdin charmingly writes, "on-line") with its own little intranet. Somehow Carla ends up on the radar of the Mafia and Zen himself also becomes entangled in the clan feud. I hate to say this about a Dibdin novel and a Zen Dibdin novel in particular, but I found this one boring. Perhaps this is one of the installments that would have benefitted from my reading the series in order, at least for becoming emotionally invested in some of the characters. I liked seeing Zen finally have some family, but like James Bond, Zen cannot have girls of any kind sticking around for too long. I could see her demise coming a mile off and wasn't particularly upset about it. Any scene involving her kind of dragged, and there were a lot of them in this one. The best part of a Zen book is when he is faced with seemingly insurmountable odds and manages to connive his way back to where he was before and solve the mystery, so the final third of the book was much more to my satisfaction. And even though the ending's impact is somewhat lessened knowing that there is a subsequent installment in the series, I can see how it would have deeply affected the reading public when it was first published. Overall, I would discourage people from starting the Zen series with this book. Either Ratking or Vendetta would fit the bill nicely. aucune critique | ajouter une critique
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Aurelio Zen--cynical and tough, yet worn down from years of law enforcement--has just been given the worst assignment he could imagine. He has been sent to the heart of hostile territory: Sicily, the ancient, beautiful island where blood has been known to flow like wine, and the distinction between the police and the criminals is a fine one. Even worse, he has been sent to spy on the elite anti-Mafia squad.The only thing that makes the job palatable--and takes his mind off routine details like the rotting body found in a remote train car--is that Zen's adopted daughter, Carla, is also in town. But life becomes precarious for Carla when she stumbles upon some information she'd be better off not knowing and befriends a local magistrate on the Mafia's most wanted list. What ensues is a breakneck plot of amazing complexity that culminates in a stunning finale. "Blood Rain," emotionally gripping and defiantly original, is surely one of Dibdin's finest works. "From the Trade Paperback edition." Aucune description trouvée dans une bibliothèque |
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