And Then You Die

And Then You Die

by Michael Dibdin

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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 ...

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    How does the atmosphere of a sun-drenched Tuscan beach resort contrast with the underlying tension and paranoia Aurelio Zen experiences while hiding out?

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    In what ways does recovery and physical vulnerability change Zen's approach to his work and his perception of his own mortality compared to his previous cases?

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    Dibdin often uses the crime genre to critique Italian society and politics; how does this novel reflect the pervasive influence and shadows of the Mafia on everyday life?

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