The timeless battle between savage and sacredMyles Dunn is certain of nothing except that he can never return to Oxford. Two years ago, as a muchadmired Jesuit at the threshold of prestige and possibility, he made two irredeemable mistakes he fell in love with the perfect woman and then killed her in a motorcycle accident. Shattered, he lost his faith, left the priesthood, abandoned his career and decamped to his birthplace in Colorado, where hes been working in a hardware store, languishing in ignominious limbo. When he receives a dire and dubious plea from his late beloveds brother Jeremya Jesuit and Myles estranged friendagainst nearly every impulse within him he reluctantly agrees to return to the place of his greatest joy and hardest fall. Jeremy, a genial but lackluster Oxford don, has stumbled upon a tattered and unpublished manuscript by Victorian poet Gerard Manley Hopkins. Though the unfinished poem has been ignored for well over a century, Jeremy believes it contains a series of word puzzles indicating the location of the Cuxham Chalice, a legendary treasure dating to Englands medieval past. Jeremy wants Myles help to decode the enigmatic sonnet, locate the chalice and, above all, to keep Jeremy safe from an unknown and dangerous adversary. Upon Myles arrival, Oxford is convulsing from the beheading of an innocent boy in an apparent act of Islamist terror and besieged by riots and violent reprisals.Two days into his visit, as Myles faces the discomfiting...

Binding: Paperback;366 pages; Publisher: De Profundis Books, LLC; Classification: N/A; Weight: 545.02 g; Dimensions: N/A

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