by Brian Moore · HarperCollins · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780586087374
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«The Colour of Blood» is Brian Moore's political thriller, published by HarperCollins in paperback (224 pages, in English).
In an unnamed country in the Eastern Bloc, someone wants to silence Cardinal Bem, mediator between Church and State. After escaping an assassination attempt, Bem is kidnapped by anonymous men and held against his will in a safe house, unsure whether his captors are the secret police or the Church itself. Only he can prevent the revolution that threatens to tear the country apart.
Originally published in 1987, this 1994 edition was nominated for the Booker Prize and won the Sunday Express Book of the Year and the Canadian Authors Association Award.
For readers of political thrillers and espionage, and for those seeking fiction set in the Eastern Bloc with tension between Church and State.
Brian Moore, was a novelist and screenwriter from Northern Ireland who emigrated to Canada and later lived in the United States. He was acclaimed for the descriptions in his novels of life in Northern Ireland during and after the Second World War, in particular his explorations of the inter-communal divisions of The Troubles, and has been described as "one of the few genuine masters of the contemporary novel". He was awarded the James Tait Black Memorial Prize in 1975 and the inaugural Sunday Express Book of the Year award in 1987, and he was shortlisted for the Booker Prize three times. Moore also wrote screenplays and several of his books were made into films.
