<p><i>Aurelio Zen was dead to the world. Under the next umbrella, a few desirable metres closer to the sea, Massimo Rutelli was just dead.</i><br><br>Inspector Zen 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. But when 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 it bungled months before on a lonely Sicilian road. The pleasant monotony of resort life is cut short as Zen finds himself transported to a remote and strange world far from home...and wherever he goes, trouble follows.<br><br><b>If you enjoyed the Inspector Zen Mystery series you may also like </b><b><i>The Last Sherlock Holmes Story</i></b><b>, another crime novel by Michael Dibdin.</b></p>