| | I read The Colour of Blood by Brian Moore as the 10th of ten for the Book Awards Reading Challenge. This political thriller and novel of ideas won the short-lived Sunday Express Book of the Year Prize in 1987. In an unnamed Eastern European country, a Cardinal feels he must maintain the church as a social and ethical force to save souls, against government-supported atheism, but at the time prevent semi-fascist nationalists and anti-semites from starting demonstrations that would cause a Big Neighbor to intervene as it did in Hungary and Czecho. I strongly recommend this examination of compromises in the face of violent repression, plus the thrills of the chase and action, to readers who like John LeCarre, John Banville, or a little farther away, Ian Mcewan. Moore is better – smarter, less cynical - than Graham Greene when it comes to investigating individual moral choices in political and religious contexts.
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