Synopses & Reviews
With an extraordinarily acute take on the extremist mind, the award-winning author of Ratking gives readers an electrifying story of interconnected lives, all of which spin in a desperate orbit around a man known to his followers as the " Eternal Prophet."
Review
"The premise of this thriller is plausible. A religious sect with a membership of seekers, down-and-out drifters, outcasts, and the ignorant are held spellbound by a charismatic leader in the grip of his own apocalyptic vision. And Dibdin has shown in previous novels that he is a talented writer. But however much the characters scream and rant in this novel, they provoke little or no emotion in the reader. Part of the problem is that the dialogue does not ring true. And part also is the design of the book, with two strands of narrative carried on in alternating chapters, leading to a choppiness that never allows the reader to build an emotional head of steam." Reviewed by Daniel Weiss, Virginia Quarterly Review (Copyright 2006 Virginia Quarterly Review)