Hi All…I hope everyone on the East coast got through Hurricane Irene safely and with minimal inconvenience. Things seem to be chugging along here in NYC, luckily it was not too bad-news-bears. I mostly watched movies and ate too much junk food (i.e. an embarrassing number of cheese doodles)…
Anywho…back to the business of books. I have a great one for you…Sanctus is Simon Toyne's first book, and a conspiracy thriller of epic proportions! It also just got a starred review from Library Journal, so I'm not alone in my opinion.
Check out what they said:
“A cassocked monk stands on a mountaintop in modern-day Turkey above the fictional city of Ruin. Arms outstretched, he forms a tau, the 19th letter of the Greek alphabet. Having climbed from within a cloistered Vatican-like city-state called the Citadel, he is a remarkable sight, attracting media attention as he deliberately plummets outside the Citadel’s walls. To some, this event portends a prophetic sequence, but the ensuing investigation brings unwanted scrutiny upon the secretive order. What message was this monk delivering…and to whom? When his journalist sister arrives to claim the body, she unwittingly becomes enmeshed in intrigue befitting an action thriller. The monks are hiding something in the Citadel, and they will go to any length to protect it. VERDICT Throwing his hat in with the religious conspiracy thriller crowd, former British -television producer Toyne has written a well-developed, exciting debut, the first volume of a projected trilogy, that doesn’t tip off the ending midnovel like so many of its kind. Its “just one more page, one more chapter” urgency keeps you reading into the night, and the final revelation of the Citadel’s secret is haunting.”