Friends in High Places
by Donna Leon
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- Paperback
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- ISBN 13
- 9780143114147
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Synopsis
Donna Leon's latest Commissario Brunetti novel sees her Venetian dete ctive drawn into an underworld of drugs and loan sharking, in her finest exploration of both her city and her character yet.When Commissario Guido Brunetti is visited by a young bureaucrat investigating the lack of official approval for the building of his apartment years earlier, his first reaction, like any other Venetian, is to think of whom he knows who might bring pressure to bear on the relevant government department. But when the bureaucrat rings Brunetti at work, clearly scared, and is then found dead after a fall from scaffolding, something is obviously going on that has implications greater than the fate of Brunetti's apartment ...
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- Title
- Friends in High Places
- Author
- Donna Leon
- Format/Binding
- Mass Market Paperback
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Paperback
- ISBN 10
- 014311414X
- ISBN 13
- 9780143114147
- Publisher
- Penguin Publishing Group
- Place of Publication
- East Rutherford, New Jersey, U.s.a.
- Date Published
- 2008
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