- Fascism, Serial murders, Fiction, Fiction in English
A book that came to me from MC, on the back of the "shoes of the fisherman", this story is again set in Italy at a time of crisis. The death of a general sets into play a series of events that point to a coup led by the intelligence agencies.
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Grave, earnest, plot-driven and epic.
- gravecomic
- earnestironic
- character-ledplot-driven
- intimateepic
- contemplativerelentless
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- Author
- Morris West
- First published
- November 1991
- Pages
- 326
- Publisher
- Heron Books, Hodder, Vergara
- Editions
- 29
- Language
- French, Spanish, English
- ISBN
- 9780340265871
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Morris Langlo West AO was an Australian novelist and playwright, best known for his novels The Devil's Advocate (1959), The Shoes of the Fisherman (1963) and The Clowns of God (1981). His books were published in 27 languages and sold more than 60 million copies worldwide. Each new book he wrote after he became an established writer sold more than one million copies. West's works were often focused on international politics and the role of the Roman Catholic Church in international affairs. One of his best known works, The Shoes of the Fisherman (1963), described the election and career of a Slav as Pope, 15 years before the historic election of Karol Wojtyła as Pope John Paul II. The sequel,
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