This is the first time I’ve read anything by this Spanish author. What a find! I’m already hot on the trail of more of his books. In this one, set in contemporary Seville, a Roman priest, Father Lorenzo Quart, who serves, as near as I can tell, as a sort of Special Agent or hatchet man for an archbishop, is sent to Spain to investigate a computer hacker’s allegations regarding some deaths in a disintegrating church that stands on some valuable land in the heart of the city. Quart finds a fading aristocratic family, an ambitious banker, an unusual nun, a priest with a church forgotten by time, and a number of shadowy characters who drift between the respectable world and the underworld. The English translation is incredibly vivid (so I assume the original Spanish is just as poetic). I checked out Perez-Reverte’s web site (http://www.perez-reverte.com/ ) and see he also writes historical works. I plan on getting more of his novels, both the contemporary ones and the historical ones.
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