- Hardcover: 320 pages
- Publisher: Viking (25 May 1989)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0670823872
- ISBN-13: 978-0670823871
- Product Dimensions: 23.6 x 15 x 4.1 cm
- Average Customer Review: 4.7 out of 5 stars See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 542,303 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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John Cornwell was invited by the Vatican to conduct a new investigation into the circumstances of Papa Luciani's death and the allegation that he was poisoned in an assassination plot. This is the story of a quest that took the author from Rome to Milan, to Zurich, to Ireland and to New York, in pursuit of the men who had been close to John Paul I at his death.
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34 of 38 people found the following review helpful
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I am not a Christian. In fact, despite my deep interest in the history of religion, I am a staunch agnostic. Yet if there was ever a human being who, had he been granted more time, could have changed the world for the better, it was Papa Albino Luciani - better know as Pope John Paul 1 - who died under mysterious circumstances on 28 September 1978 after only 33 days in office.
Know by many as 'The Smiling Pope', it was widely believed that the Papacy of this humble, 65-year-old Italian would not be particularly noteworthy. How wrong could they have been! On the eve of his untimely death, Papa Luciani was not only preparing to slacken the Church's ruling on birth control, he was also about to embark on an investigation into corruption within the Vatican itself - corruption involving an illegal masonic lodge which had penetrated the Vatican walls in its search for power and wealth.
A Thief in the Night by John Cornwell is a truly excellent work of investigative journalism which examines the life of this wonderful man and guides us - quite objectively - through the events that led to his unnecessarily early death.
Unlike David Yallop in his book In God's Name, Cornwell does not force his opinions on the reader, but provides us, instead, with the known facts, and allows us to come to our own conclusions.
Although the truth will probably never be known, it is abundantly clear that certain high-ranking individuals from both inside and outside the Vatican had much to fear if John Paul I had remained alive.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
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I think this is a worthy addition to the argument over the scandals in the Vatican and the death of Pope John Paul I.
Moreover, it reads like a brilliant detective story, full of intrigue and suspicion.
Moreover, it reads like a brilliant detective story, full of intrigue and suspicion.
4 of 5 people found the following review helpful
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A well-researched account of John Paul I reign and death. Perhaps of more interest is the account of the workings of the Vatican 20 years ago. Having been written before Hitler's Pope it also gives an interesting background to Cornwell's views on Pius XII. Well worth a read.
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