Book reviewage
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bibliotheca, apologies if it turns up on your screen twice.
I just finished The Seville Communion by Arturo Perez-Reverte.
This book totally rocks. It's a detective story about a priest sent by the Vatican to investigate strange happenings surrounding a church in Seville that is about to be closed down and the land sold off in a highly lucrative real estate deal. According to the hacker who has sent a message to the Pope's personal PC, "the church is killing to defend itself". A strange assortment of characters are indeed prepared to do just about anything to keep the church open.
It treads just the right line between being terribly serious (there's a lot about faith and the role of the Church in the modern world; also a lot of digs at the present pope and the right-wingers filling the Vatican) and very silly (three very inept characters are hired by one of the bankers to "neutralise" the parish priest). The characters are all excellently portrayed, and the pacing is superb. I can't recommend it enough.
bibliotheca, apologies if it turns up on your screen twice.I just finished The Seville Communion by Arturo Perez-Reverte.
This book totally rocks. It's a detective story about a priest sent by the Vatican to investigate strange happenings surrounding a church in Seville that is about to be closed down and the land sold off in a highly lucrative real estate deal. According to the hacker who has sent a message to the Pope's personal PC, "the church is killing to defend itself". A strange assortment of characters are indeed prepared to do just about anything to keep the church open.
It treads just the right line between being terribly serious (there's a lot about faith and the role of the Church in the modern world; also a lot of digs at the present pope and the right-wingers filling the Vatican) and very silly (three very inept characters are hired by one of the bankers to "neutralise" the parish priest). The characters are all excellently portrayed, and the pacing is superb. I can't recommend it enough.
