Morris West - The Devil's Advocate

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In Calabria, Southern Italy, an unofficial cultus has sprung up round the memory of Giacomo Nerone. The Bishop of Valenta has ordered an investigation with a view to the possible introduction of the Cause of Canonisation. Blaise Meredith, an English priest, is chosen by the Vatican to act as Devil’s Advocate: the man whose function it is to find and present every possible piece of evidence against the candidate for saintly honours.

Meredith, ‘a man with the dust of the libraries on his heart’, finds himself caught in a web of concealment and intrigue, woven by the people who knew Giacomo Nerone: his mistress, who has given birth to his child, a Jewish doctor, a senile priest and the Contessa, a rich and beautiful Englishwoman who has something to hide. His investigation not only lays bare the truth about Giacomo Nerone, but leads Meredith himself to moving and dramatic solution of his own problems as a priest and a man.