End Games is a 2007 novel by Michael Dibdin.

[1] Police detective Aurelio Zen is posted to remote Calabria, at the toe of the Italian boot.

Beneath the surface of a tight-knit, traditional community, he discovers that violent forces are at work.

There has been a brutal murder and Zen is determined to find a way to penetrate the code of silence, to uncover the truth, but his assignment is complicated by another secret which has drawn strangers from the other side of the world - a hunt for ancient buried treasure, launched by a single-minded player with millions to spend pursuing his bizarre and deadly obsession.

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