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In this masterpiece of psychological suspense, German Authorities Commissioner Aurelio Zen is sent to research the kidnapping of Ruggiero Miletti, a strong Perugian industrialist. But nobody much wants Zen to achieve success: not the neighborhood authorities, who see him being an interloper, and undoubtedly not Miletti's kids, who seem content to allow the mind of the household languish in the hands of his abductors -- if he's still alive.Was Miletti undoubtedly the target of experts?  Or may his kidnapper be somebody nearer to home: his preening boy Daniele, together with his thousand-lire clothing and his lucrative medication company?  His child, Cinzia, whose vapid beauty covers a disastrous solution? The perverse Silvio, or the oldest child Pietro, the fixer who manipulates the plots of others for their own ends? As Zen attempts to solve this rat's nest of family interest and formal complicity, Michael Dibdin provides us one of is own most accomplished thrillers, a masterpiece of emotional suspense and police treatment.