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Chargement... Basilicapar William D. Montalbano
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Vatican City, the dawn of a new century: a lone priest trudges up the winding stairs to the top of St. Peter's Basilica, only to be helped to a sudden and permanent route down.With this death, an ever-more complex chain of events is set in motion in a new kind of thriller: a story of Vatican politics and obsessional revenge, of violence both spiritual and physical, of two men shaped and scarred by a common stormy past. One is the new Pope, nicknamed Tredi, the first from Latin America, a young, audacious risk-taker ready to shake up the old guard, even if it means making dangerous enemies. The other is Brother Paul, a former Miami homicide cop, still recovering from the horrific deaths of his family and brought to Rome as an informal investigator for the Pope, a Vatican Mr. Fixit drifting unsteadily in the shadows of the giant church.When the priest dies in the Basilica, it is Paul who is asked to find out what it means, and soon his days are torn between new alliances and old enmities, as the threats multiply, the ghosts of the past stalking the ancient streets of Rome, circling in upon both Paul and Tredi. In a multilayered surprising thriller, filled with mystery both religious and corporeal, they find that it is not so easy to change an institution, just as it is not so easy to change a life. Though a life is easy to lose.... Aucune description trouvée dans une bibliothèque |
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Pope Pius XIII, or “Tredi” as he is known by his intiimates, is the first Latin American pope. He had achieved prominence as the Cocaine Cardinal working hard against drug dealers, subverting their actions whenever he could. It was in this role that he encountered Paul Lorenzo, captain of the Miami Homicide squad. Paul — later Brother Paul, but more later — saves the Cardinal’s life from an assassination attempt by the Caballero family. During the attempt, Paul shoots a Caballero, and, more significantly, takes a suitcase filled with drug cartel money, thinking it will not be missed. Wrong.
The cartel wants its money back and kidnaps the detective’s family for an exchange. The exchange results in the spectacular killing of Paul’s family and those sent to pick up the money. Paul swears revenge and goes undercover in Latin American to assassinate the rest of the family. He also descends into a psychological hell from which Tredi rescues him spiritually, psychologically and physically in a harrowing scene on a mountainside that Montalbano uses to attribute miraculous powers to Tredi. (Montalbano clearly does not like Pope Paul, referring to him sarcastically on numerous occasions as the “Pole.”)
Paul seeks sanctuary from his past by becoming a “brother.” In that role he becomes the Pope’s troubleshooter and investigator. The Pope asks him to investigate the spectacular death of a priest who fell, or was pushed, from the top of the basilica. As the investigation proceeds, bodies begin to pop up in several places and Paul himself becomes a target. Evidence soon points to a relationship between the old drug cartel and the Sacred Keys, a Catholic traditionalist organization that is dismayed by the new pope’s revisionist and modernist thinking.
It’s a good story. Clearly Montalbano intimately knew his way around Rome and the Vatican so the book has a real sense of local color.
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