{"product_id":"advocatus-diaboli-a-novel-the-catholic-themes-book-one-paperback","title":"Advocatus Diaboli: A Novel (The Catholic Themes, Book One) - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eWilliam Baer\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMany Words Press-an imprint of Able Muse Press-is proud to introduce \u003cem\u003eAdvocatus Diaboli\u003c\/em\u003e of the Catholic Themes, initiating a new series by the author of the popular Jack Colt mystery series: \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003cem\u003eAdvocatus Diaboli\u003c\/em\u003e is the story of a murder mystery caught up in a canonization cause. International in scope, it unravels though Washington, DC, Rome, the Vatican, Ireland, and elsewhere. It interrogates the making and makeup of a Modern-day saint, juxtaposed to forces for good or ill working to upend or uphold the cause, in the backdrop of the day-to-day failings or goodness of its cast of characters and hagiographies of related saints of the past. \u003cem\u003eAdvocatus Diaboli\u003c\/em\u003e is spellbinding as the best mystery novels and spiritually fulfilling in ways few of them could hope to, or even, care to achieve.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePRAISE FOR \u003cem\u003eADVOCATUS DIABOLI\u003c\/em\u003e: \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIt's much easier to depict wickedness than sanctity, vice than virtue. It's much easier to portray a whiskey priest than a genuine believable saint. The reason is simple. It's difficult to depict sanctity without succumbing to either the saccharin or the preachy. William Baer has shown himself a consummate novelist in the manner in which goodness is portrayed without preachiness in this gritty tour de force of a story, which has as many twists and turns as the finest page-turning mystery story. This is fiction at its finest.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e- Joseph Pearce, author of \u003cem\u003eThe Quest for Shakespeare\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFrom the opening pages of William Baer's \u003cem\u003eAdvocatus Diaboli\u003c\/em\u003e straight through to its moving conclusion, the reader is irrevocably hooked. This is a brave novel and a brave novelist, unafraid to address the unfashionable questions of faith and doubt, to posit the possibility (though never the certainty) of an immanent divinity at work in the lives of ordinary men and women, the human need for grace, and the power of redemptive suffering to save us from ourselves and each other. Baer writes in the tradition of Graham Greene, Walker Percy, Andre Dubus, and Ron Hansen, among others-Catholic fiction writers each of whom says \"No! in thunder\" to both the nihilism and easy belief of his era. Compelling and credible, Baer has given us that rare gift-a clear-eyed, intelligent, religious novel that eschews the pieties of doubters and unthinking believers alike.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e- Angela Alaimo O'Donnell, author of \u003cem\u003eAndalusian Hours: Poems\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBaer draws characters who face a world larger, stranger, and more vast than they at first know. Its sharp edges and fleshly longings are confused and influenced by forces modernity would like to ignore-ones of both great evil and divine good, that in the words of Solzhenistsyn, ultimately lie not in the physical world at all, but cut right through the center of every human heart.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e- A. G. Harmon, author of \u003cem\u003eSome Bore Gifts: Stories\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eABOUT THE AUTHOR: \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eWilliam Baer \u003c\/strong\u003eis the author of thirty books including \u003cem\u003eTimes Square and Other Stories, Psalter: A Sequence of Catholic Sonnets, Classic American Films: Conversations with the Screenwriters, Luís de Camões: Selected Sonnets \u003c\/em\u003e(translations from the Portuguese); and the Jack Colt Mystery series, \u003cem\u003eNew Jersey Noir\u003c\/em\u003e. A graduate of Rutgers, NYU, South Carolina, the Johns Hopkins Writing Seminars, and USC Cinema, he's been the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship, a Fulbright (Portugal), an NEA fellowship in fiction, the T. S. Eliot Award, and the Jack Nicholson Screenwriting Award. He was also the founding editor of the \u003cem\u003eFormalist\u003c\/em\u003e, the founding director of the St. Robert Southwell Summer Workshops, and the film critic and poetry editor at \u003cem\u003eCrisis\u003c\/em\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 228\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.52 x 9 x 6 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eIllustrated:\u003c\/strong\u003e Yes\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e June 09, 2023\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53391661138285,"sku":"9781773491172","price":32.87,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1001\/0823\/9213\/files\/RWxtS3NMblhFZmQ3WVRrMk8xdXRIZz09.webp?v=1780275200","url":"https:\/\/cleanfreaklab.myshopify.com\/products\/advocatus-diaboli-a-novel-the-catholic-themes-book-one-paperback","provider":"Clean Freak Lab","version":"1.0","type":"link"}