The Assassini

Assassini (English original title The Assassini ) is a crime novel by the American author Thomas Gifford, who first appeared in 1990 and plays in the milieu of the Catholic Church and the Vatican.

Action

October 1982: The popular sister Valentine Driskill is murdered, prompting her brother Ben, a former Jesuit and current attorney investigations hires. A mysterious photo from 1943 shows four unidentified men. In search of them - and the fifth, who has made the picture - Ben comes a conspiracy on the track, are involved in the highest circles of the Vatican; the Pope is dying, and in the race to succeed him a haughty and unscrupulous elite of cardinals is willing to stop at nothing.

Background

Gifford researched for his greatest single work on nearly a decade before it was published in 1990. The book was a great economic success. It was, as later Dan Brown's " Da Vinci Code ", criticized by church leaders because of its strong Vatican critical action.

Style

The book tells the Driskill relevant chapter of the story in the first person, but changes for the storylines involving other characters in the third person.

The plot is peppered with numerous references and background information and anecdotes that illuminate the history of the Catholic Church from Giffords view. The author sees a developed over the centuries a function of various organs of the Vatican as a powerful international secret of unimaginable secular - particularly financial - power. He also claims a concentrated information power of the secret archives of the Vatican.

Expenditure

• Thomas Gifford: Assassini. Bergisch Gladbach, Luebbe 1991 ISBN 3- 7857-0609 -X and 3-404-13509-1 ( paperback ) abridged version of the novel as an audiobook (7 CDs): Luebbe, Bergisch Gladbach 2004, ISBN 3-7857-1416-5

• Literary work
• Literature ( 20th century)
• Literature ( English )
• Crime Fiction
• Literature (United States)
• Novel, epic