They were orphans, Chris and Saul - raised in a Philadelphia school for boys, bonded by friendship, and devoted to a mysterious man called Eliot.
He visited them and brought them candy.
He treated them like sons.
He trained them to be assassins.
Now he is trying desperately to have them killed.
Spanning the globe, here is an astonishing novel of fierce loyalty and violent betrayal, of murders planned and coolly executed, of revenge bitterly, urgently desired.
[Editor's Note: The following is a combined review with THE FRATERNITY OF THE STONE.]--Two different books have similar plots--both offer excellent suspense and are well delivered. In THE BROTHERHOOD OF THE ROSE, listeners follow the lives of two orphans, Chris and Saul, through their "adoptions" into the intriguing world of their "father," Eliot. In THE FRATERNITY OF THE STONE, Morrell details the life an agent, Drew, who attempts to leave the agency by faking his death and entering a monastery. In both works the full cast delivers edge-of-your-seat suspense. Both thrillers offer plots that depart from the usual, and the narrators maintain the titles' fast pace and quickly developing characters. Either of these titles, by the author of the first Rambo novel, could easily translate into a big screen offering. R.B.T. (c) AudioFile 2006, Portland, Maine
About the Author
David Morrell is the New York Times bestselling author of twenty-eight books, including his award-winning Creepers. Co-founder of the International Thrillers Writers Organization, he is considered by many to be the father of the modern action novel. To learn more, go to www.davidmorrell.net.
