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The Seville Communion

by A Perez Reverte

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Synopses & Reviews

Publisher Comments:

A“diabolically good” hacker puts a message on the pope’s computer, pleading for him to save a seventeenth-century Spanish church—a church that is killing to defend itself.Although Our Lady of the Tears is but a crumbling baroque building in the heart of Seville, it is also the center of a multilayered mystery—one that will force ecclesiastical sleuth Father Lorenzo Quart to question his loyalty, his vow of chastity, and his faith itself.

Review:

"This superbly entertaining and intricate thriller...confirms its Spanish author's growing reputation as the thinking man's Robert Ludlum....Reading Pérez-Reverte is one of the most choice pleasures contemporary fiction offers." Kirkus Reviews

Review:

"Pérez-Reverte writes with wit, narrative economy, a sharp eye for the telling detail and a feel for history. The Seville Communion is good fun." The New York Times Book Review

Review:

"[E]ngaging....Pérez-Reverte's characters capture the imagination, and his dramatic Seville seduces his protagonist and readers alike." Publishers Weekly

Review:

"[A]bsolutely engrossing...readers who ordinarily do not gravitate to thrillers could begin an appreciation of the genre right here....[W]onderfully complicated, greatly atmospheric, and delectably sophisticated..." Booklist

Review:

"Not as tightly wound as in Pérez-Reverte's past novels, the plot turns instead to a question much larger than a whodunit: What happens when faith degenerates into obsession?" Los Angeles Times

Review:

"[O]ne of those infrequent whodunits that transcend the genre....[P]age-turning pace and vivid characters..." Time

Synopsis:

A"diabolically good" hacker puts a message on the pope's computer, pleading for him to save a seventeenth-century Spanish church-a church that is killing to defend itself.Although Our Lady of the Tears is but a crumbling baroque building in the heart of Seville, it is also the center of a multilayered mystery-one that will force ecclesiastical sleuth Father Lorenzo Quart to question his loyalty, his vow of chastity, and his faith itself.

About the Author

Arturo Pérez-Reverte is an internationally acclaimed author whose books have been translated into nineteen languages in thirty countries and have sold more than three million copies worldwide. He was born in 1951 in Spain, where he still lives.

Product Details

ISBN:
9780156029810
Translator:
Soto, Sonia
Publisher:
Harvest Books
Translator:
Soto, Sonia
Author:
Perez-Reverte, Arturo
Subject:
Literary
Subject:
Thrillers
Subject:
Mystery & Detective - General
Subject:
Suspense
Copyright:
Publication Date:
June 2004
Binding:
Paperback
Language:
English
Illustrations:
Y
Pages:
375
Dimensions:
8.04x5.32x.93 in. .81 lbs.

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