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'The Book of Q and The Overseer by New York novelist Jonathan Rabb easily out-manoeuvre Brown in grand and dark ecclesiastical designs.' Boyd Tonkin --The Independent
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After the mysterious death of one Vatican priest and the disappearance of another, Father Ian Pearse, an American working on early Christian texts in the Vatican, comes into possession of a mysterious scroll. He discovers ingeniously coded letters and the text of an ancient prayer never before found in written form. These reveal a conspiracy, by a sect long-thought dead, reaching deep into the present Vatican hierarchy. It becomes a race against a ruthless unknown opponent, which takes Father Pearse from the Vatican, via an ancient Greek monastery, to war- torn Bosnia.
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3 of 4 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
Better than the first one,
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This review is from: The Book of Q: A Novel (Hardcover)
GREAT!!!!!!!!!!!! Even better than the first one.The story is settled mainly on the Balkans and Greek and the characters are better pictured. It kept me guessing till the end. The background and the storyline are really attractive. It is a winner, I cannot wait till the next one.
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Another intelligent thriller from Rabb,
By Soferet "soferet2" (Jerusalem 93715 Israel) - See all my reviews
This review is from: The Book of Q (Paperback)
From a taut beginning to a startling finish, this thoughtful, well written tale of modern mayhem and ancient texts involving benign scholars and wicked priests takes the reader from the mass graves of Bosnia to the vaults of the Vatican with an unlikely hero, a priest caught between sacred and profane love, a man who does not seem to know who his true enemy is and who his friends are. With flashes of humor thrown in, this is the perfect read for a winter evening!
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3.6 out of 5 stars (15 customer reviews) 7 of 8 people found the following review helpful:
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Good Solid Mediocre,
By scott.smith@agmd.org - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: The Book of Q: A Novel (Hardcover)
This really is not that good of a book. It starts out slow, speeds up very well about mid way through, then hits a serious wall when it should be climaxing. We run into old tired wishful thinking that some manuscript is going to bring down the Catholic church. (I am not a Catholic) The amount of time spent on a totally fictitious parchment that the author evidently desperately wishes existed really made finishing the book hard work for me. Jonathan Rabb is not Clancy or Grisham. The good news is that his books are only about half as long as theirs are.
7 of 9 people found the following review helpful:
2.0 out of 5 stars
here we go again,
By Donald J. French - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: The Book of Q: A Novel (Hardcover)
Another rehash of the "priest-who-finds-document-which-will-change-the world" theme. Some of it was interesting, but the ending when an unearthed document has Christ speaking the most politically correct utterances ever...well, it was too much! Can someone write something original about "unearthed documents"?
7 of 9 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars
Read this for fun, not Enlightment,
By Andy Edie - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: The Book of Q: A Novel (Hardcover)
This book is a thriller/adventure book. Of course, that is my opinion. It is not a historical mystery or historical thriller. It is not a revelation on the true word of Christ; however, it is a small diatribe on the institution of the Catholic Church. Again, this is only my opinion.My point being, if you like the thriller or adventure genres, then you might find this book to your liking. If you are considering this book because you find the history of the church or scriptures interesting, or you are looking to find a new, different view of the Bible, look elsewhere. The story centers on a young priest, Ian Pearse, who gets caught up in a quest to find an ancient scroll. The Manicheans, a secret society of a Faith long thought destroyed by the Catholic Church, desperately want to find the scroll so that they may, in turn, destroy the Catholic Church with its revelations on the true word of Christ. 'The Book of Q' is, at points, far-fetched and contrived. But, hey, this IS fiction. My biggest complaint is the unnecessary detail Rabb uses in his descriptions of the various locales used in the book. Without providing maps to reference, his use of exact street names, as well as exact landmarks, often ends up being frustrating, and distracts from the story. Unless, of course, you have actually been to Vatican City and the other places described in the book. Read this book for the adventure and suspense, not for theological extrapolations. |
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