Eminence
By: Morris West.
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: Harcourt Brace
Published: 1998
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 322
Subjects: Popes -- Fiction.; Cardinals -- Fiction.; Catholics -- Fiction.; Clergy -- Fiction.; Rome (Italy) -- Fiction.; Vatican City -- Fiction.
Genres: Fiction.
Description: Morris West's new novel centers on Luca Rossini, once a young priest savagely tortured by the Argentinean military in the 1970s. To cover up the scandal, Rossini was taken back to Rome and kept in exile. Under the patronage of the reigning pontiff, he has become a cardinal, one of the Church's most efficient diplomats, and a member of the electoral college.

When the reigning pope dies, Rossini loses his patron - though not his power or his iron will - and his faith, already shaken by his past, is tested anew. On the eve of the papal election, the woman who saved his life and for whom, even in exile, he has nourished a deep and abiding love, comes again into his life. The wounds of the past are reopened, and Rossini finds himself in a new crisis of political responsibility and faces the turmoil of his own spirit.