The Colour of Blood - Softcover

Moore, Brian

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0586087370 ISBN 13: 9780586087374

Publisher: HarperCollins, 1994

Synopsis

Held against his will at a safe-house after an assassination attempt, Cardinal Bem is unsure whether his captors work for the government or for the Catholic Church

About this title

From the Publisher:

The Colour of Blood won the Sunday Express Book of the Year Award, and was shortlisted for the Booker Prize.

'Brian Moore leads the field with a style that can only be called immaculate. The Colour of Blood is a superbly constructed suspense narrative.' - Guardian

'A Hitchcockian sequence of chases, shaken certainties, mistaken identities, masquerades, detections and escapes. Brian Moore has always shown a mastery of suspense, and having turned his hand to the political thriller he has produced something exemplary.' - Sunday Telegraph

'Surprise is of the essence in this beautifully crafted novel. Brian Moore's versatility, his life-long refusal to keep writing the same book over again, is too much taken for granted. He writes simply and economically, but with a true generosity of vision.' - Observer

About the Author:

Brian Moore was born in Belfast in 1921 and was educated there at St Malachy's College. He served with the British Ministry of War Transport during the latter part of the Second World War in North Africa, Italy and France. After the war he worked for the United Nations in Europe before emigrating to Canada in 1948, where he became a journalist and adopted Canadian citizenship. He spent some time in New York before moving to California, where he now lives and works. Five of his novels have been made into films: The Lonely Passion of Judith Hearne, The Luck of Ginger Coffey, Catholics, Cold Heaven and, most recently, Black Robe.

Brian Moore won the Authors' Club First Novel Award for The Lonely Passion of Judith Hearne, the W. H. Smith Literary Award for Catholics, the James Tait Black Memorial Prize for The Great Victorian Collection, and the Sunday Express Book of the Year Prize for The Colour of Blood. He has been shortlisted for the Booker Prize three times with The Doctor's Wife, The Colour of Blood and Lies of Silence.

About this edition

• Publisher: HarperCollins
• Publication date: 1994
• ISBN 10: 0586087370
• ISBN 13: 9780586087374
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 224