Blood of the lamb: a novel of secrets
β Scribed by Sam Cabot
- Publisher
- Penguin Group US;Blue Rider Press
- Year
- 2013
- Tongue
- en-US
- Weight
- 350 KB
- Category
- Fiction
- ISBN
- 1322797838
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β¦ Synopsis
The Historian meets The Da Vinci Code and Inferno in this exhilarating supernatural thriller set in Rome, where rival groups are searching for a document that holds a secret that could shatter the Catholic Church.
This document, dear friend, will shatter the Church.....
Reading these words in a letter in a dusty archive, Thomas Kelly is skeptical. The papers to which they refer have vanished, but Father Kelly, a Jesuit priest, doubts that anything could ever have had that powerβuntil the Vatican suddenly calls him to Rome to begin a desperate search for that very document.
Meanwhile, standing before a council of her people, Livia Pietro receives instructions: she must find a Jesuit priest who has recently arrived in Rome and join his search for a document that contains a secret so shocking it has the power to destroy not only the Catholic Church, but Livia's people as well.
As cryptic messages from...
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