SANCTUARY
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- $8.99
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- $8.99
Publisher Description
“DeSario is a miracle worker. . . . [He] swings for the fences and knocks it clear out of the park.” Booklist
In Joseph P. DeSario’s suspenseful novel, tabloid reporter Matt Teller’s discovery of a brutal crime leads to a world of murder, conspiracy, and the occult.
In the middle of an isolated road in the California desert, Teller comes across a horribly mutilated corpse lashed to a metal cot. But when Teller returns to the scene, the evidence is gone. Meanwhile in the remote highlands of Guatemala, ex-baseball great Bill Buchanan thinks he’s found salvation from his boozy bush-league life when he hears about an Indian kid with an amazing pitching arm. But when he arrives at the village, all that’s left of the kid is the arm. Soon Teller and Buchanan encounter bloody ritual and genocide, as they are entangled in a centuries-old prophecy with the power to destroy.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
This new thriller by De Sario ( Limbo ) shows a sure knowledge of Guatemala and its history; the Sanctuary movement run by American religious groups; the inner workings of scandal sheets; the lower rungs of baseball scouting; and the distinctly unglamorous lives passed in inland California--but combines these disparate elements in a topsy-turvy plot that resists straightforward summary and wears a reader's patience thin. In essence, De Sario tells the story of a ``yellow journalist,'' Matt Teller, who discovers a dead body and, he hopes, a hot story in the California desert, but is hard-pressed to fulfill his dreams of glory when interference presents itself in the form of priests (bringing peasants into the U.S. illegally), an alcoholic big-leaguer (now scouting in Guatemala), homicidal Guatemalan intelligence officials (invading U.S. territory in pursuit of popular rebel leaders) and many, many others. The author's large cast of characters vies for our attention in violent scenes piled on so gratuitously that a reader quickly becomes jaded.
