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Here’s something you don’t see all that often: a successful writer hauling out one of his old books and rewriting it. The Quest, originally published as a mass-market paperback in 1975, was DeMille’s first novel. In some ways, it anticipated the current spate of thrillers whose plots involve a historical mystery, frequently with a religious component: a trio of journalists, covering the Ethiopian civil war, stumble onto what could be the key to one of history’s greatest puzzles, the location of the fabled Holy Grail. What’s especially interesting here is that the author has rewritten the book, apparently rather extensively (the original paperback edition ran to 255 pages, while the new galley circulated for review clocks in at nearly 460), but he hasn’t updated it. It’s still set in the mid-1970s, and it still feels like a book written at that time, although fans of the author’s recent work will note DeMille’s familiar deft characterizations and lively dialogue. A full-fledged new DeMille novel or a historical curiosity? You be the judge. --David Pitt
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Nelson DeMille wrote THE QUEST nearly 40 years ago. It has been fully rewritten, showcasing this masterful author's historical knowledge, understanding of the human psyche, and matchless
entertainment skills. The novel crosses genres with its spiritualism, wit, adventure and romance, not to mention gripping action. Full of DeMille's characteristic --- and unparalleled --- humor and intelligence, THE QUEST delivers. Boy, does it deliver.
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Nelson DeMille is at the absolute peak of his powers in "The Quest" (Center Street, 464 pages, $26) an epic tale that's broad in both scope and vision, harkening back to his earlier masterworks such as "The Charm School" and "By the Rivers of Babylon" as it brings the action in Africa of the mid-1970s. That's where an old priest named Father Armando emerges from a bombed-out prison after decades in captivity with the location of nothing less than the Holy Grail tucked in his mind.
From there, staged against the backdrop of the endless Ethiopian civil war, the quest of the title begins in search of it, undertaken by a trio of intrepid journalists (well, two plus a photographer), including the hard-bitten and hard-driving Frank Purcell, who's standing in for DeMille's redoubtable John Corey this time out. Purcell becomes our Robert Langdon as the book takes on the texture and feel of Dan Brown at his level best, chock full of mysticism, murderous monks, deadly assassins, and vengeful natives all on a quest to either find the Grail or make sure its secrets remain hidden forever.
This is adventure on the grandest of scales and richest of tapestries, Wilbur Smith and Fredrick Forsythe rolled into one with some Indian Jones tossed in for good measure. A masterpiece fashioned by a storyteller who simply has no rival.
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Providence Sunday Journal)
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- Hardcover: 464 pages
- Publisher: Center Street; 1 edition (September 17, 2013)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 1455576425
- ISBN-13: 978-1455576425
- Product Dimensions: 9 x 6.4 x 1.7 inches
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I've been reading Demille's books for decades, since his "By the Rivers of Babylon" came out back in the late 70s. I didn't think much of that book, but over the years he gained a lot of skill and usually his books are very enjoyable (with a few exceptions). I usually buy his newest on the day of its release.
I was looking forward to "The Quest" as the blurb sounded like an intriguing mix of adventure, politics, and maybe some mythology thrown in for good measure.
Imagine my surprise, after I got it and started reading it, in finding out in the very first few pages that this book is actually one he wrote BEFORE his usually-acknowledged "first" book, "Babylon". It actually precedes the publication of that book by three years - published in 1975 as opposed to "Babylon's" 1978 (according to Wikipedia) - and enjoyed a very limited release which promptly (and understandably) sank out of sight.
Wouldn't you think that the fact that it's a recycling of his first failed attempt at authorship would be a germane tidbit of information potential buyers might like to know? I sure would. And yet not one word about that little factoid in either the Amazon product description nor the book's flyleaf. You have to actually start reading the book before you find that out, which means you've more than likely already bought it. In which case, sad news for YOU.
Had I known that, I wouldn't have bothered with this book. I thought "Babylon" was trite, neither well-written nor polished, with shallow characterizations and a simplistic plot. But THIS book makes it look like classic literature by comparison.
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