Reverte, Arturo Pérez

The Seville Communion; Translated from the Spanish by Sonia Soto [Advance Reading Copy]

New York: Harcourt Brace & Co., 1998. Paperback. [8], 376 p.; 23 cm. Paperback with embossed, color illustrated front cover. Advance Reading Copy. Back cover provides the marketing strategy, including a 75,000-copy first printing, with the book to be published in April 1998. First published in Spanish in 1995 under the title La Piel del Tambor. "A hacker cracks Vatican security and sends an urgent plea directly to the Pope: Save Our Lady of the Tears. The crumbling Baroque church, located in the heart of old Seville, is slated for demolition, and two of its defenders have recently died. Accidents -- or murders? The Vatican promptly dispatches Father Lorenzo Quart, their worldly and enormously attractive emissary, to investigate the situation and track down the hacker, known to the Vatican only as Vespers" [from first leaf]. ISBN: 0-15-100283-5. In Very Good Condition: "26" stamped in red on lower page edges; edges rubbed; pages are clean and tight. Very Good. Item #002941
ISBN: 0151002835

Price: $12.50