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Pyr · Ebook · April 3, 2012
A bishop is dead.
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- Who it’s for
- A speculative crime thriller where faith, secular power, and old dangers share uneasy ground.
- Themes
- Religious minority persecution, Religion and secularism, Terrorism
- Genres
- Sci-Fi Crime, Terrorism Thrillers, Sci-Fi
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A bishop is dead. As Detective Inspector Adam Ferguson picks through the rubble of the tiny church, he discovers that it was deliberately bombed. That it's a terrorist act is soon beyond doubt. It's been a long time since anyone saw anything like this. Terrorism is history ...After the Middle East wars and the rising sea levels - after Armageddon and the Flood - came the Great Rejection. The first Enlightenment separated church from state.
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The Second Enlightenment has separated religion from politics. In this enlightened age there's no persecution, but the millions who still believe and worship are a marginal and mistrusted minority. Now someone is killing them. At first, suspicion falls on atheists more militant than the secular authorities. But when the target list expands to include the godless, it becomes evident that something very old has risen from the ashes. Old and very, very dangerous ...
Faith Under Pressure
A speculative crime thriller where faith, secular power, and old dangers share uneasy ground.
Come here for
- Near-future crime with religion at its center
- Political tension shaped by shifting lines of belief
Expect
- A world where believers are a mistrusted minority
- An investigation that widens toward an ancient danger
Where it sits
| Sci-Fi Crime | 78% |
|---|---|
| Terrorism Thrillers | 38% |
| Sci-Fi | 28% |
Percentages are BookFrontier’s reading of the book.
Publisher categories
- Suspense
- Crime Fiction
- Authors
- Ken MacLeod
- Publisher
- Pyr
- Published
- April 3, 2012
- Format
- Ebook
- Theme
- Religious minority persecution · Religion and secularism · Terrorism
- Reading lane
- Suspense