The Left Hand of God - Rilegato

Hoffman, Paul

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ISBN 10: 0525951318 ISBN 13: 9780525951315

Casa editrice: E P Dutton, 2010

Riassunto

They call him Cale.

He is destined to save the world...

...or destroy it.

In the Redeemer Sanctuary, the stronghold of a secretive sect of warrior monks, torture and death await the unsuccessful or disobedient. Raised by the Redeemers from early childhood like hundreds of other young captives, Thomas Cale has known only deprivation, punishment, and grueling training. He doesn't know that another world exists outside the fortress walls or even that secrets he can't imagine lurk behind the Sanctuary's many forbidden doorways. He doesn't know that his master Lord Bosco and the Sanctuary's Redeemers have been preparing for a holy war for centuries-a holy war that is now imminent. And Cale doesn't know that he's been noticed and quietly cultivated.

Then, Cale decides to open a door.

It's a door that leads to one of the Redeemers' darkest secrets and a choice that is really no choice at all: certain death or daring escape. Adrift in the wider world for the first time in his young life, Cale soon finds himself in Memphis, the capitol of culture-and the den of Sin. It's there that Cale discovers his prodigious gift: violence. And he discovers that after years of abuse at the hands of the Redeemers his embittered heart is still capable of loving-and breaking.

But the Redeemers won't accept the defection of their special subject without a fight. As the clash of civilizations that has been looming for thousands of years draws near, a world where the faithful are as brutal as the sinful looks to young Cale to decide its fate.

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Recensione:

"Brooding and magnificent. Hoffman has created a terrifying world and filled it with strange and complex characters."
-Eoin Colfer, New York Times Bestselling author of Artemis Fowl

"Writers like Hoffman are too rare. This wonderful book gripped me from the first chapter and then dropped me days later, dazed and grinning to myself."
-Conn Iggulden, New York Times Bestselling author of The Dangerous Book for Boys

L'autore:

Paul Hoffman studied English at New College, Oxford before becoming a senior film censor at the British Board of Film Classification. He lives in the United Kingdom. The Left Hand of God is the first in trilogy following Cale.

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• Editore: E P Dutton
• Data di pubblicazione: 2010
• ISBN 10: 0525951318
• ISBN 13: 9780525951315
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero edizione: 1
• Numero di pagine: 372