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Simon Mawer
(National Geographic; $22)
Customer review
British writer Simon Mawer blasts the Christian calendar to smithereens in The Gospel of Judas. If you hated DaVinci Code for heresy, here you have heresy, sacrilege, blasphemy, grief and guilt in the fictitious account of Father Leo Neuman's fall from grace. He is a linguist for the Catholic Church. He becomes defrocked for betraying his vow of celibacy, falling in love as he does with the complex Madeleine. He becomes the target of the miscreants calling themselves the "Children of God" when his expertise threatens to uncover a secret of the early Church that, once publicized, would wreck the entire underpinnings of his faith and that of every other Christian. He loses faith. He loses love but in the end gains hope from the somewhat misguided efforts of his unlikely live-in artist, Magda, who prods him to visit holy sites, buys him a second hand monstrance and prays for him. This is a well wrought mystery with a methodical pace that, happily, doesn't leave you in limbo.
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