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Day of Confession [Audiobook, Unabridged] [Audio Cassette]

Allan Folsom (Author), Michael Kramer (Reader)
3.2 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (94 customer reviews)

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This massive thriller pits a scheming prince of the Church who believes he was once Alexander the Great against the Addison brothers--Harry, a Hollywood lawyer, and Danny, a Vatican priest. It seems that Danny had the bad luck to hear another cardinal's confession outlining a heinous plot to poison China's water supply in order to win the Vatican bankers a multi-billion-dollar contract to rebuild it--and of course to take advantage of the opportunity to convert a quarter of the world's population and ensure the Church's world domination into the next century. Spanning the globe from Vatican City to Beijing, from Los Angeles to Switzerland, the action never stops. And whenever it seems to falter for more than a paragraph, someone among Folsom's picaresque cast of minor characters (a nun, a dwarf, a CIA station chief, a beautiful television journalist, and an African poet, among others) turns up just in time to give it a nudge. The narrative is not as fluid as it could be, and the plot might have been devised by a conspiracy theorist with a taste for chaos physics, but fans of Folsom's intense novel The Day After Tomorrow won't be disappointed. --Jane Adams --This text refers to the Hardcover edition.

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A world-famous assassin, a power-hungry villain, a beleaguered hero, a plot to take over the largest country on earth. Folsom's frantically paced follow-up to his bestselling The Day After Tomorrow throws together all the raw materials of a first-rate thriller and proves that ingredients alone do not a meal make. Four days after Cardinal Rosario Parma is assassinated in Rome, hotshot L.A. entertainment lawyer Harry Addison gets a frantic phone message from his estranged brother, Danny, a Vatican priest. Shortly thereafter, Harry hears that Danny has died in a bus explosion. When he flies to Rome to claim the body, he discovers that Danny is the prime suspect in Parma's murder?and that he's still alive. The novel then follows two parallel plots. Harry tries to find Danny and clear his name; meanwhile, the sinister Cardinal Umberto Palestrina, who thinks he's the reincarnation of Alexander the Great, plots to make China the site of a new Holy Roman Empire. It's that Alexander the Great touch that pushes an already teetering story line over the edge, where everything is explained by shorthand (the estrangement between the Addison brothers) or circular logic (Palestrina is feared and powerful because he inspires fear and wields power). There's a lot of action, mostly to hide the fact that the cardboard characters generate as little sympathy as the thousands of Chinese deaths that are Step One in Palestrina's master plan. Instead of being disturbing or controversial, Folsom's mix of religion and politics approaches comic-book parody. Agent, Aaron Priest.
Copyright 1998 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to the Hardcover edition.
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2.0 out of 5 stars wait a minute..., Jan 9 2004
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Peter Ibsen (San Francisco, CA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Day of Confession (Mass Market Paperback)
It started of good and went downhill, even after I finished it. Folsom's first book (DAT) was very entertaining and pretty muched wrapped all the plotlines together in the end. Tis is a similar story. Lone wolf american (with his team of justice do-ers) jumps about europe seeking the answers to a diabolical plan set in motion by a sect of power hungry evil folk. It is fun to read, a metric ton of adventure and action keeps you reading. But when it is finished you realize something is missing. Then you realize NOTHING WAS RESOLVED. Only two plotlines of this over layered novel comes to an end. Actually after finishing it you come to think that the bad guys won. Mr. Folsom kind of forgot to solve the complex plot that he created. for shame allen. for shame.

if you liked DAT read this but don't expect much. except a dissapointment at the end.

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5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent and fast-paced thriller, May 13 2003
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Timothy R. Adams (Chicago, Illinois United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Day of Confession (Mass Market Paperback)
I originally bought this book out of nostalgia, because the story took place in places that I had visited in Italy.

I really wasn't expecting much of a cohesive plot; just amusement. I was quite mistaken and got more than I bargained for.

The references to the cities and areas I am familiar with were accurate, but the story line was so engrossing that I lost sleep a couple of evenings when I stayed up too late in order to keep reading to see what happens next.

This is a "dark novel." Some aspects of the storyline strained believability. Some scenes were frightening. Some were disturbing.

But the author keeps the reader involved.

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3.0 out of 5 stars Not nearly as good as the author's first book, Dec 3 2002
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This review is from: Day of Confession (Mass Market Paperback)
This feedback based on the abridged audiobook version...

1) Joe Mantegna does a fairly good job of acting the story out. Decent voice impersonations and emotional inflections. He did seem to lack a bit energy in the reading but then again his handling of the long Italian names left me impressed. ;)

2) This story of the Catholic Church kept me confused because I thought I was reading an Italian Mafia story instead. Maybe that was the author's intentions but it just didn't connect well with me.

3) I agree with the other reviews that Thomas Kind is the most interesting character in the book. Definitely someone to fear. Good bad guy creation.

4) The whole casual sex reporter woman, then not seeing her again for a long part of the story...then her being a key person in the resolution of the story was a bit too far fetched for me.

5) Overall if you want to read Allan Folsom definitely read The Day After Tomorrow...this story can be skipped unless you have nothing else to do with your time.

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