- Fiction, Catholics, Clergy, Fiction, espionage
A Black Mass in the Vatican in 1963 gets Malachi's first novel since Vatican (1985) off to a wicked start. A potentially gripping conflict between two American brothers--one a priest, one a lawyer, both heirs to a fortune and to the family manse of Windswept House--follows.
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Grave, earnest, raw and contemplative.
- gravecomic
- earnestironic
- rawmeticulous
- contemplativerelentless
- intimateepic
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About the book
- Author
- Malachi Martin
- First published
- 1996
- Pages
- 651
- Publisher
- Doubleday Image,U.S., Doubleday, Main Street Books
- Editions
- 3
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9780385484084
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“IN THE VATICAN of early May, no one was surprised that the Holy Father would depart for yet another pastoral visit abroad.”
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