Synopses & Reviews
"Magnificently rendered...drawn with great suspense... Brilliant", proclaimed Henry Louis Gates, Jr., in front-page New York Times Book Review coverage of Brian Moore's 1993 novel No Other Life. Now this riveting and complex thriller is available for the first time in paperback.
Set on the fictional Caribbean island of Ganae, No Other Life traces the rise and fall of Jeannot, a charismatic priest-turned-politician, who, preaching the need for justice in this life, urges his black brethren to throw off the oppression of a ruling military junta. As his following grows, so does alarm in the halls of the Vatican and the sheltered enclaves of the light-skinned elite. Even those who have known and supported Ganae for years question his motives and wonder where his passion will take him, as the island erupts into a violent whirl of assassination attempts and abortive coups.
From the bestselling author of The Statement comes a tense, taunt thriller that is "Beguiling...subtle, perfectly sustained...It reverberates and haunts, its intensity lingering long after the book has come to an end". -- William Trevor in The New York Review of Books
-- Like The Statement, No Other Life combines political intrigue and questions of faith with first-rate suspense in a novel that is as gripping as it is profound.