A Killing for Christ
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- 14,99 €
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- 14,99 €
Publisher Description
A "fast-paced [and] stylishly punchy" thriller about an assassin targeting the pope, by the New York Times-bestselling author of Snow in August (The New York Times).
The man in priest's garb gets out of the elevator at the top floor, leaving the gate ajar. He pulls out the loaded rifle he had hidden, and steps to the edge of the roof. St. Peter's Square is spread out before him like a great, colorful lake. There are more people than he has ever seen before.
Now the target arrives. The man on top of the building sights down the rifle at the small figure below. His finger is ready on the trigger, ready to gun down His Holiness, the Vicar of Christ...
The first novel by the prize-winning journalist and acclaimed author of A Drinking Life, Tabloid City, and other bestsellers, this tale of danger and espionage is "steeped in noir sensibility....a tense, page-turning thriller that is as pertinent today as it was when it was first published" (Shelf Awareness).
Includes a new introduction by the author
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
This reissue marks the 50th anniversary of the publication of journalist Hamill's first novel, an angry diatribe. In early 1968, at a time of ferment over the Vietnam War and the direction of the Catholic Church, a number of disaffected people collide in Rome, including American voluptuary James Rail; Richard Harwell, a rabidly anti-Semitic Jew; and Fr. Robert Malloy, an Irish priest, and his Italian lover, Franca. Malloy, who travels in high social circles, gets wind of a plot to assassinate the pope among the dissolute denizens of Rome. As Easter and the assassination date approach, Malloy begins to understand what is happening, but will he try to prevent it? In a new introduction, Hamill (Tabloid City) comments on the book's influences and what he now considers its primary theme: the loss of faith. Indeed, this thriller is of most interest as a guide to the author's political and religious views during that tumultuous era.
