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Boston : Little, Brown and Co., c1998.
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A heart-thumping whirlwind of action, suspense & murder that reaches deep into the highest levels of Vatican power & uncovers a demonic scheme to massacre hundreds of thousands of Chinese in an attempt to establish a new Holy Roman Empire on the Chinese mainland in the twenty-first century.
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LibraryThing member dspoon
When L.A. entertainment lawyer Harry Addison gets a call that his brother, Vatican priest Father Daniel Addison, has been killed in an explosion in Italy, he rushes to Rome to claim the body. But when he reaches the airport, Harry is picked by Italian police, who tell him that his brother is the
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LibraryThing member HankIII
Where's a good editor when you need one? Because one was really needed. Days of Confession just lags; the characters are not that well-developed or convincing. On top of that, the inaccuracy about the water being poisoned as an act of sabotage was just plain hilarious. Any idiot whose lived or even
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visited China knows that the surest way to experience bowel contractions is to drink the water straight from the tap. That's why they boil it if they drink it! But why should that inaccuracy stop you? After all, a 40 year old man who has five orgasms within two hours should be accepted as well. I don't know. The book was way too long. It kept dragging and dragging. How in the world did I finish it? Well, I didn't. I had 50 pages left, and said the hell with it. Show Less
LibraryThing member honoliipali
This was my first time reading Allan Folsom so I had no previous exposure to him or reviews by others. When I started to write this review at Amazon, I was very surprised to see that the reviews were almost evenly spaced on each of the five star ratings. I found myself questioning how to write a
I found the story to be interesting right from the start but then I enjoy stories about the sins of the Catholic church. I found the book to be a page turner. I really did not want to put it down but its length of 556 interesting pages caused me to read it in four sittings. I think there were a couple of minor items that were weak but they did not adversely affect the intrigue of the book.
There were a great many characters. I thought that I might have a hard time keeping them straight. However, the author did a good job of i9dentifying where the story was happening and did not jump back and forth between characters needlessly. I am rating this book a 4 star read because of the characters. Even though the story was well written, I did not think the characters were well developed. They were just not characters with which I could identify.
I do recommend this book. If you are not liking the book by page 100, you probably try something else.
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fair review but here goes.I found the story to be interesting right from the start but then I enjoy stories about the sins of the Catholic church. I found the book to be a page turner. I really did not want to put it down but its length of 556 interesting pages caused me to read it in four sittings. I think there were a couple of minor items that were weak but they did not adversely affect the intrigue of the book.
There were a great many characters. I thought that I might have a hard time keeping them straight. However, the author did a good job of i9dentifying where the story was happening and did not jump back and forth between characters needlessly. I am rating this book a 4 star read because of the characters. Even though the story was well written, I did not think the characters were well developed. They were just not characters with which I could identify.
I do recommend this book. If you are not liking the book by page 100, you probably try something else.
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Original publication date
1998
Physical description
537 p.; 25 inches
ISBN
0316287555 / 9780316287555