audio cd
Published Nov. 22, 2016 by Random House Audio.
The pope is dead. Behind the locked doors of the Sistine Chapel, one hundred and eighteen cardinals from all over the globe will cast their votes in the world's most secretive election. They are holy men. But they have ambition. And they have rivals. Over the next seventy-two hours one of them will become the most powerful spiritual figure on Earth.
Another "quiet thriller" like Harris's Cicero trilogy, with its many twists and turns driven by the characters, just as they should be. Takes a little while to get good, but after the first third, I was so compelled to keep reading that I finished the whole thing in a week, something I never do.
It's not really my field at all, but I found it electrifying and captivating in equal measure. I'm no fan of the church, but it was a cleverly spun story with a lot of subtlest to it.
