### From Publishers Weekly Starred Review. Blatty fans looking for straight-up horror in the vein of *The Exorcist* will be disappointed, but those with broader tastes will find this a beautifully written, haunting tale of vengeance, spiritual searching, loss, and love. In 1973 Albania, Colonel Vlo
Dimiter
β Scribed by William Peter Blatty
- Publisher
- Tom Doherty Associates;Forge
- Year
- 2010
- Tongue
- en-US
- Weight
- 131 KB
- Edition
- 1st hardcover ed
- Category
- Fiction
- ISBN
- 0765325128
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β¦ Synopsis
William Peter Blatty has thrilled generations of readers with his iconic mega-bestseller The Exorcist. Now Blatty gives us Dimiter , a riveting story of murder, revenge, and suspense. Laced with themes of faith and love, sin and forgiveness, vengeance and compassion, it is a novelin the grand tradition of Morris West's The Devil's Advocate and the Catholic novels of Graham Greene.
Dimiter opens in the world's most oppressive and isolated totalitarian state: Albania in the 1970s. A prisoner suspected of being an enemy agent is held by state security. An unsettling presence, though subjected to unimaginable torture he maintains an eerie silence. He escapes---and on the way to freedom, completes a mysterious mission. The prisoner is Dimiter, the American "agent from Hell."
The scene shifts to Jerusalem, focusing on Hadassah Hospital and a cast of engaging, colorful characters: the brooding Christian Arab police detective, Peter Meral;...
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William Peter Blatty has thrilled generations of readers with his iconic mega-bestseller *The Exorcist*. Now Blatty gives us *Dimiter*, a riveting story of murder, revenge, and suspense. Laced with themes of faith and love, sin and forgiveness, vengeance and compassion, it is a novelin the grand tra
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