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Simon & Schuster
March 2015
On Sale: March 3, 2015
448 pages
ISBN: 1451694148
EAN: 9781451694147
Kindle: B00LD1S0NE
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Suspense | Thriller | Historical
In Ian Caldwell’s masterful follow-up to his international
sensation The Rule of Four, a lost gospel, a contentious
relic, and a dying pope’s final wish converge to send two
brothers—both Vatican priests—on an intellectual quest to
untangle Christianity’s greatest historical mystery. Ten years ago, Ian Caldwell and Dustin Thomason’s The Rule
of Four became a literary phenomenon that earned
comparisons
to Umberto Eco’s The Name of the Rose and Donna Tartt’s
The
Secret History. Hailed as "ingenious...profoundly erudite"
(The New York Times), "compulsively readable" (People),
and
"an exceptional piece of scholarship" (San Francisco
Chronicle), it spent forty-nine weeks on the New York
Times
bestseller list, sold nearly two million copies in North
America, and was translated into thirty-five languages
around the world. Now, after a decade of painstaking
primary
research, Ian Caldwell returns with a new intellectual
thriller that confirms his place among the most ambitious
popular storytellers working today. In 2004, as Pope John Paul II’s reign enters its twilight,
a
mysterious exhibit is under construction at the Vatican
Museums. A week before it is scheduled to open, its
curator
is murdered at a clandestine meeting on the outskirts of
Rome. The same night, a violent break-in rocks the home of
the curator’s research partner, Father Alex Andreou, a
Greek
Catholic priest who lives inside the Vatican with his
five-year-old son. When the papal police fail to identify
a
suspect in either crime, Father Alex, desperate to keep
his
family safe, undertakes his own investigation. To find the
killer he must reconstruct the dead curator’s secret: what
the four Christian gospels—and a little-known, true-to-
life
fifth gospel known as the Diatessaron—reveal about the
Church’s most controversial holy relic. But just as he
begins to understand the truth about his friend’s death
and
its consequences for the future of the world’s two largest
Christian Churches, Father Alex finds himself hunted down
by
someone with vested stakes in the exhibit—someone he must
outwit to survive. At once a riveting literary thriller, a feast of biblical
history and scholarship, and a moving family drama, The
Fifth Gospel is a novel about the depths of sacrifice and
the power of forgiveness. Rich, authentic, erudite, and
emotionally searing, it satisfies on every level.
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