The Lovers: A Novel
by By West, Morris L.
Category: Fiction , General

The internationally acclaimed author of The Devil's Advocate and The Shoes of the Fisherman has written a novel of star-crossed lovers spanning the years from just after World War II to the present.Bryan Cavanagh, a young Irishman from Australia, joins the crew of a wealthy American's yacht on, ostensibly, a pleasure cruise for the American and his young bride, a Principessa whose family was established before the Renaissance. But the marriage, it turns out, is one of convenience, and the American is actually a facilitator of new alliances in the rapidly developing battleground of the Cold War.Against this backdrop, Cavanagh and the Principessa have a passionate affair. Some forty years later, the lovers are reunited, and Cavanagh is abruptly confronted with his and the Principessa's son, a bishop born out of wedlock, high in the hierarchy of the Vatican.Brilliantly interweaving past and present, the author creates an epiphanic tale of transcendent love, the crowning achievement of an illustrious career.