{"product_id":"cabal-isbn-9780375707704","title":"Cabal","description":"In \u003cb\u003eCabal\u003c\/b\u003e, master crime writer Michael Dibdin plunges us into a murky world of church spies, secret societies, cover-ups, and mistaken identities. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAn apparent suicide in the Vatican may in fact have been a muder conducted by a centuries-old cabal within The Knights of Columbus. A discovery among the medieval manuscripts of the Vatican Library leads to a second death, Zen travels to Milan, where he faces a final, dramatic showdown. Meanwhile, Zen's lover, the tantalizing Tania, is conducting her own covert operations--which could well jeopardize everything Zen has worked for. Richly textured, wickedly entertaining, \u003cb\u003eCabal\u003c\/b\u003e taps the mysterious beauty of Italy in a thriller that challenges our beliefs about love, allegiance, history, and power--and the lengths to which we will go to protect them against the truth.\"Beautifully written. . . .  An excellent thriller.\" --\u003ci\u003eThe Wall Street Journal\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Dibdin has a gift for shocking the unshockable reader.\" --Ruth Rendell\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"The kind of wry, sly morality tale only a writer at the top of his game could bring off successfully.\" --\u003ci\u003eThe Philadelphia Inquirer\u003c\/i\u003eMichael Dibdin was born in England and raised in Northern Ireland. He attended Sussex University and the University of Alberta in Canada. He spent five years in Perugia, Italy, where he taught English at the local university. He went on to live in Oxford, England and Seattle, Washington. He was the author of eighteen novels, eleven of them in the popular Aurelio Zen series, including \u003ci\u003eRatking\u003c\/i\u003e, which won the Crime Writers’ Association Gold Dagger, and \u003ci\u003eCabal\u003c\/i\u003e, which was awarded the French Grand Prix du Roman Policier. His work has been translated into eighteen languages. He died in 2007.Winner of the Gold Dagger Award","brand":"Vintage Crime\/Black Lizard","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46302739955941,"sku":"NP9780375707704","price":18.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9780375707704.jpg?v=1767723250","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/es\/products\/cabal-isbn-9780375707704","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}