Sanctus
By: Simon Toyne
Publisher: Harper
Published: 2011
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780007391585
Subjects: Religious articles; Women journalists; Fiction
Description: A man throws himself to his death from the oldest inhabited place on the face of the earth, a mountainous citadel in the historic Turkish city of Ruin. This is no ordinary suicide but a symbolic act. And thanks to the media it is witnessed by the entire world. For charity worker Kathryn Mann and a handful of others in the know, this is the call to action they have been awaiting. For the cowled and secretive fanatics that live in the Citadel, it could mean the end of all they have built - and they will kill, torture and break every law to prevent that happening...