The Troublesome Offspring Of Cardinal Guzman

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<p><b>The epic finale of the Latin American trilogy following<i>The War of Don Emmanuel's Nether Parts</i>and<i>Senor Vivo and the Coca Lord</i></b></p><p>While the economy of his small South American country collapses, President Veracruz joins his improbable populace of ex-soldiers, former guerrillas, unfrocked priests and reformed - though by no means inactive - whores, in a bizarre search for sexual fulfilment.</p><p>But for Cardinal Guzman, a man tormented by his own private daemons, their stupendous, hedonistic fiestas represent the epicentre of all heresies.Heresies that must be challenged with a horrifying new inquisition destined to climax in a spectacular confrontation...</p><p><b>'An extraordinary feat of imagination... a sensuous, often farcical and ultimately optimistic argument for spiritual sanity'<i>Time Out</i></b></p>

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Louis de Bernières is the best-selling author of<i>Captain Corelli's Mandolin</i>. His most recent novels are<i>Birds Without Wings and A Partisan's Daughter</i>.

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