Morris Langlo West Libros

Un Papa conservador está a punto de dejar vacante el trono de San Pedro. Un mayordomo le roba sus diarios personales y los vende a la prensa. Un cardenal argentino, jesuita, de ideas más progresistas y con un pasado marcado por la dictadura de su país, es

El abogado Martin Gregory y su esposa Pat reciben en Londres la inesperada visita de Charles Cassidy, el padre de ella, con quien habían perdido todo contacto tras dejar Australia para casarse sin su consentimiento. Cassidy, importante políticio y despiadado hombre de negocios, confiesa a Martin que padece una grave enfermedad y le pide que sea su albacea testamentario. Su yerno y antiguo ayudante se ve moralmente obligado a aceptar aunque sospecha que se trata de un encargo envenenado. Ni se imagina hasta qué punto.

In Morris West's last novel he brings a real man, denounced as a heretic and burnt at the stake 400 years ago, back to life.

John Spada publicly runs an enormous multi-national corporation, privately he heads Proteus, a clandestine resistance movement. His aim is to free prisoners of conscience wherever they may be. As the story unfolds, Spada himself becomes an outlaw, and holds the world hostage.

Bryan de Courcy Cavanagh, Australian in Paris, is a top-notch international lawyer and a happily married New York gentleman. Until a sealed letter arrives from Rome on his sixty-fifth birthday, bearing the arms of the ancient house of Farnese di Mongrifone. It is a summons from the woman he loved and lost forty years ago in the stormy world of post-war Europe.

A Russian - and the youngest cardinal of all - is elected as the new pope. This is the story of Kiril Lakota, a cardinal who reluctantly steps out from behind the Iron Curtain to lead the Catholic Church and to grapple with the many issues facing the contemporary world.