Michael Dibdin's diffidently honest Italian policeman Aurelio Zen has got the posting he always dreaded -he has been sent to Sicily, home of the Mafia, in a nondescript liaison job. The discovery of an unidentified, decomposed corpse in a railway wagon marks the beginning of Zen's most difficult and dangerous case. Set against the backdrop of the 3000-year-old city of Catalina, in the shadow of Mount Etna, 'Blood Rain' finds Aurelio Zen at his most desperate and driven.
