5/8/2023 0 Comments Robert dugoni the last agent![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() The story seemed good, but I wish the author had invested in a good substantive editor/researcher, especially after he decided to turn back the clock to 1987. I confess I tunes out once I started noticing these type of things. Saul was a Jew!!!! He persecuted Christians!!!! (He was a Roman citizen and claimed the right not to be crucified as such, but he was definitely a Jew.) To me there is no way that even a blue-jean wearing, tattooed priest would get that wrong. ![]() Paul saying that before his conversion, the then Saul persecuted and even "murdered" Jews. But too many things weren't "down-dated" for me. As I write this, I think I realize that the author moved it back because there is no way the church would now allow a lone priest to set up a shelter staffed by just him for underage boy prostitutes. (Absolutely things were happening, but the lid hadn't blown off yet.) Sometimes the characters seemed to speak from the perspective of what we know now, and at other times from an '80s perspective. I seem to remember that in 1987 the main scandals about catholic priests hadn't really broken yet. The choice to set this book in 1987 confused me and I didn't find the author consistent in the way he portrayed the time. ![]()
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