Format: Paperback
ISBN: 978-88-89541-47-0
Pages: 488
Published: October 2010
The sky is a bit 'more dubious than usual. An insinuating voice. A voice like a thousand voices. A loud murmur, like the cry of a thousand tortured souls: She is coming.
In an Umbrian monastery is one of the orders picked the most controversial church in Christendom: the order of the Hidden. Thirty-three monks, exorcists, whose iron rule makes it impossible to discover even the face. Shrouded in a gray robe. At the foot of heavy boots. The narrow waist by a chain. A simple cross of iron as a weapon.
"Hominis conspectum hidden, naked sub oculis Dei."
Holy Roman Church can not claim any better. Thirty-three warriors of the Faith, ready to eradicate the evil from the body with a force never seen before.
Among them there is one with no name, no history. Dressed in a black robe like the abyss. Everyone calls him "Deacon" and is perhaps the best exorcist appeared on earth after Jesus Christ, but his past has too many shadows not to arouse a bit 'of concern.
Suddenly something happens. Muted. But that began to proliferate like a cancer. The exorcisms are becoming increasingly difficult to lose its effectiveness, some churches are starting to burn, a growing number of exorcists died in unusual circumstances.
A bomb explodes in the papal apartments.
Few people understand that the world is not the same. Even fewer people are starting to feel it coming. She, N'Talha Jeza, ate it up, slow, inexorable advances in a delirium of flesh and blood in which all the pieces fit together perfectly eventually lead to the revelation last: Armageddon.
We all doors. Gates through which forces can act bigger than us. Can accommodate all the evil, and this is distressing to make this book. We can not trust anyone.
The story is there. And it's damn loud. When it seems that the tide of horror have been set over the usual rigmarole of pale vampires and zombies, Andrea G. Colombo pulled out of the hat a re-reading of a leitmotif of many horror in the '70s and '80s, the theme of demonic possession, contamination, probably with the trend of the pandemic, which has given so much to feed the large cast of Hollywood, especially in 'last decade.
be honest. Few books keep you tied to them from beginning to end. "The Deacon" is one of those. A narrative
precise, fast and yet precise. The passage of time reminds Valerio Evangelisti, and this can only be a merit. Furthermore, the view of the whole work is disarming. In a positive sense, of course.
impossible not to think, in some passages of the novel, the work of Dan Brown "Angels and Demons", but do not believe that the reference, as inevitable, is desired.
not need to spend too many words for a job well done. The book speaks for itself.
If I had a few million euro to invest, I'd be the first to offer to produce a film from this extraordinary book. If there is any producer out there, instead of spending time with my reviews, please, give us a little thought up and give birth to a REAL horror movie, because "The Deacon" deserves!
(Review by) Valerie Bonante
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