The assissini is one of those books you haven't heard about, don't look that special but something makes you try it out anyway. For me it was the name of the book and in some way the story, the places.
The story spreads itself around Rome, Princeton, the Donegal coast in Ireland and even Paris and Alexandria. The church is in the middle of everything, but is full of secrets ...in the past and now. And, the Pope is dying and Rome and the rest of the world wants to know who will become the new Pope.
A document exists telling who the assissini are, but luckily for the church it is hidden and the church can keep its secrets inside. Until sister Valentine gets murdered in the chapel of her powerful family.
Her brother Ben, a lawyer, realizes that the murder of his sister won't be invesitgated by police or the church like any other murder would. His sister wasn't any nun either. So he starts to investigate himself and gets involved more and more in the history and present of the church, while more murders happen.
With everything that happens and gets discovered in this story, it can't be boring. But the beginning of the book was a it too long, slow and would have been written maybe a bit shorter. Besides that, it went fast, it was interesting. The story happens in 1982 and withour knowing how to explain, it leaves behind a bit the feeling of how the world, the people seem to have been in the eighties.