Synopses & Reviews
"One of those infrequent whodunits that transcend the genre . . . [with] page-turning pace and vivid characters."--
TimeSomeone has hacked into the Pope's personal computer, not to spy on the Vatican, but to send an urgent plea for help: save our lady of the tears. The crumbling Baroque church in the heart of Seville is slated for demolition-but two of its defenders have suddenly died. Accidents? Or murders? And was the church itself somehow involved? Father Lorenzo Quart is dispatched to investigate the situation-and stay alive while doing so. Thus begins this sophisticated and utterly suspenseful page-turner. A superb entertainment, The Seville Communion is an intricate thriller that has taken readers by storm.
"An elegant thriller . . .This is a book to be savored. It is as rich and complex as the best of the golden sherries produced in the wineries around Seville."--The Denver Post
Internationally acclaimed author Arturo Pérez-Reverte was born in 1951 in Spain, where he lives. His bestselling books have been translated into nineteen languages in thirty countries and have sold millions of copies.
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"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
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"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
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"[E]ngaging....Pérez-Reverte's characters capture the imagination, and his dramatic Seville seduces his protagonist and readers alike." Publishers Weekly
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"[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
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"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
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"[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 popes 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.
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.
Synopsis
Someone has hacked into the Pope's personal computer-not to spy on the Vatican or to spread a virus, but to send an urgent plea for help: SAVE OUR LADY OF THE TEARS. The crumbling Baroque church in the heart of Seville is slated for demolition-but two of its defenders have suddenly died. Accidents? Or murders? And was the church itself somehow involved? The Vatican promptly dispatches Father Lorenzo Quart, their worldly and enormously attractive emissary, to investigate the situation, track down the hacker, known only as "Vespers"--and stay alive. Thus begins a sophisticated and utterly suspenseful page-turner that has taken its readers by storm. The Seville Communion is superb entertainment, a rich and intricate thriller that announces another triumph by a master storyteller who excels at the intellectually provocative mystery.
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.