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Book SynopsisAmongst the ancient papyri of the Dead Sea, a remarkable scroll is discovered. Written in the first century AD, it purports to be the true account of the life of Jesus, as told by Youdas the sicarios - Judas Iscariot: the missing Gospel of Judas. If authentic, it will be one of the most incendiary documents in the history of humankind. The task of proving - or disproving - its validity falls to Father Leo Newman, one of the world''s leading experts in Koine, the demotic Greek of the Roman Empire, and a man the newspapers like to call a ''renegade priest''. But as Leo absorbs himself in Judas'' testimony, the stories of his own life haunt him. The story of his forbidden yet irresistible love for a married woman. The story of his mother''s passionate and tragic affair amidst the war-time ruins of Rome. They are stories of love and betrayal that may threaten his faith just as deeply as the Gospel of Judas...
With a dramatic narrative that spans from the Europe of the Second World
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It is elegant and intelligently stylistic deliberately written with the weight of Modernist tradition behind it. * GLASGOW HERALD *
A gripping read with a suitably dramatic climax. * DAILY EXPRESS *
Simon Mawer tells a gripping, utterly compelling story. He weaves together the threads of his complex plot with a deftness that keeps the reader mesmerised to the very end of the book. * THE TIMES *
This is a throughly enjoyable and extremely well-written novel. * SUNDAY TELEGRAPH *
