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Stephen King recommended this book. “Peter Abrahams is my favorite American suspense novelist.” *Marketing blurb* But yeah, I'm definitely reading this LOL.

Stephen King recommended author and book. He says: “Peter Abrahams is my favorite American suspense novelist.” So yeah, I'am definitely reading this LOL.

Okay... this isn't a 'horror' novel, nothing like I thought it was going to be. It's more like the sexual madness that seems to have infected much of the Catholic church. It's still a page-turner. :)

But Francis has a very dark past, with another identity and a very different set of values. When he crosses the Atlantic to his native Scotland, for the funeral of a murdered son he barely knew, his old Edinburgh community expects him to take bloody revenge. But as he confronts his previous life, all those friends and enemies – and, most alarmingly, his former self – Francis seems to have other ideas.

An excerpt, “(2) The New Testament   Let us examine the pretended prophecies that are contained in the Gospels.” This book is definitely unputdownable!

An excerpt, “(2) The New Testament   Let us examine the pretended prophecies that are contained in the Gospels.” This book is definitely unputdownable!

“she was an introvert, and as such she had unique powers in negotiation—perhaps less obvious but no less formidable. She’d probably prepared more than everyone else. She had a quiet but firm speaking style. She rarely spoke without thinking. Being mild-mannered, she could take strong, even aggressive, positions while coming across as perfectly reasonable.”