The Satanic Gospel

Sixteenth century Spain. In a monastery, a Hebrew manuscript written by Nicodemus is discovered. Its revelations are startling and eventually destructive to the monks and their abbot. When the translator is murdered, an illiterate monk escapes to return years later, now as an ex-soldier and very literate. Disguised as a pilgrim, he plans to retrieve and read the Spanish translation he hid and to right a dreadful wrong he had witnessed. A literary conundrum to rival Umberto Eco’s The Name of the Rose. A splendid realization of Spain in the sixteenth century, where power struggles and belief vie for the souls of men. A remarkable â€" and perhaps controversial â€" novel with cunning twists at the end. Not to be missed. As impressive as Hackett’s debut novel, A Dark Time, yet completely different. - Robert Morton, author of Death is Another Life