The Becket Factor (Volume 1)

Anthony, Michael David

ISBN 10: 1933397950 / ISBN 13: 9781933397955

Published by Felony & Mayhem Press (edition Second US Edition), 2008

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Becket Factor (Volume 1)
• Publisher: Felony & Mayhem Press (edition Second US Edition)
• Publication Date: 2008
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1933397950
• ISBN 13: 9781933397955
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition: Second US Edition.
• Condition: Very Good

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Synopsis

After years in government service, Richard Harrison is hoping for a quiet retirement in Canterbury, where he works for the Cathedral and tends to his beloved disabled wife. Fate, though, has other plans for Harrison, which begin with a mysterious death, move on to blackmail in the secretive world of church politics, and explode into a media circus when workmen uncover a tomb that may be the final resting place of Thomas Becket - the notorious 12th-century Archbishop of Canterbury, otherwise known as St. Thomas. So much for that quiet retirement.

From Kirkus Reviews

Shades of Blount and Burgess glimmer in--of all places- -Canterbury Cathedral, when ex-Intelligence agent Richard Harrison, now supervisor of the church's infrastructure (Diocesan Dilapidations Officer) is prevailed upon by Brigadier Greville, his one-time boss, to begin a secret investigation within the Cathedral's precincts. A new Archbishop is soon to be chosen; a leading candidate is Bishop Maurice Campion, whose outspoken liberal views are anathema in some powerful quarters. Greville thinks that there may be a sinister connection between Campion and the recent death of Canon Cratchley, and that the journals of the late Bishop Harvey Watson, Campion's close associate, may uncover a treacherous past. Harrison's wheelchair-bound wife Winnie is dismayed at this intrusion into their quiet lives, but Harrison stubbornly follows a confusing trail that lurches through a welter of red herrings, double-crosses and shocking revelations to its bleak conclusion. Echoes of le Carr‚ abound in this elegantly written, densely overplotted first novel--full of the ritual, pomp and underpinnings of the great cathedral. More clarity, simplicity, and economy might make the author's second even better. -- Copyright ©1991, Kirkus Associates, LP. All rights reserved.