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| Title | : | God's Spy (Padre Anthony Fowler #1) |
| Author | : | Juan Gomez-Jurado |
| Book Format | : | Hardcover |
| Book Edition | : | First Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 368 pages |
| Published | : | April 5th 2007 by Dutton (first published 2006) |
| Categories | : | Thriller. Mystery. Fiction. Crime. Religion |
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An instant bestseller in Spain, with rights sold in twenty-eight countries and counting, God’s Spy is a spectacular contemporary thriller set in the Vatican, where, in the aftermath of Pope John Paul II’s death, the hunt for a serial killer reveals a chilling conspiracy.In the days following the Pope’s death, a cardinal is found brutally murdered in a chapel in Rome, his eyes gouged and his hands cut off. Called in for the grisly case, police inspector Paola Dicanti learns that another cardinal was recently found dead; he had also been tortured. Desperate to find the killer before another victim dies, Paola’s investigation is soon joined by Father Anthony Fowler—an American priestand former Army intelligence officer examining sexual abuse in the Church, who knows far more about the killer than Paola could possibly imagine.
As Paola and Father Anthony struggle through a maze of tantalizing clues, they begin to question whether someone in the Vatican is aiding their cause or abetting a murderer. And when evidence leads them to powerful figures within the Church hierarchy, their own pursuit of the truth may make them the next pawns to be sacrificed in a terrifying and deadly game.
A dazzling, impossible-to-put-down thriller, Juan Gómez-Jurado’s God’s Spy marks the arrival of a major new talent to the contemporary suspense fiction scene.
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| Original Title: | Espía de Dios |
| ISBN: | 0525949941 (ISBN13: 9780525949947) |
| Edition Language: | English URL http://www.godspynovel.com |
| Series: | Padre Anthony Fowler #1 |
| Characters: | Paola Dicanti, Anthony Fowler |
| Setting: | United States of America Indonesia Vatican City(Italy) …more Rome(Italy) …less |
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Ratings: 3.75 From 3183 Users | 319 ReviewsPiece Out Of Books God's Spy (Padre Anthony Fowler #1)
Do you crave a good murder mystery with your hot cocoa on a rainy Saturday morning? This is your book! An aggressive whodonut set in the Eternal City, told from a non-american perspective. I enjoyed every guilty minute.Really liked this one! Very exciting and terifying at the same time. There have been several books dealing with this event all with serious questions surrounding the choosing of this Pope. Makes you wonder.
Do you crave a good murder mystery with your hot cocoa on a rainy Saturday morning? This is your book! An aggressive whodonut set in the Eternal City, told from a non-american perspective. I enjoyed every guilty minute.
Violent! But somewht dont really like dicanti's character..nice to read nevertheless..
This sounded like a great novel, but its really not much more than a rip off of Angels & Demons by Daniel Brown. The Pope has died and as the cardinals gather in Vatican City to prepare to elect the successor, some crazed killer begins to kill some of the leading candidates to succeed as Pontiff.Whats different from A&D? No great secret society is behind anything. The killer is a sociopathic deranged (former) priest who (view spoiler)[also abused children back in Boston, and who was,
pg 83-84 " ... You don't think I'm in a little bit over my head with all this ?"...Troi's fingers stroked his chin. He forced Dicanti to look directly at him. "We're all in a little bit over our heads, bambina. But let all of that go. Just focus on the fact that there's a monster killing people. And your job is hunting monsters."Paola smiled. She was grateful and she wanted him again, one last time, right there, even though she knew it was a mistake, and it would break her heart..."Hmmm, this
It is as if someone who read The DaVinci Code, watched Silence of the Lambs and listened to an NPR report on the sex abuse scandals of the Archdiocese of Boston decided to write a book. Absolutely unreadable if you know anything about criminology or Catholicism.
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