The Blood Cries Out for Vengeance (Novel)

By J. P. Madrox

Product Code: 9781621389460

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1861, Holy Week. Ignacio de la Cruz is the parish priest of a tiny village in Arizona. He is also an ex-bounty hunter who earned a fortune off of other people's misdeeds while committing innumerable atrocities of his own. And, despite his efforts to atone for his mistakes and exorcise his demons, neither seems eager to let him go. Tempted yet unwavering, he continuously gives himself to God. When his friends and neighbours are terrorised by a series of heinous killings, Ignacio is faced with a choice: suffer for the faults of others or revive the sinner inside and punish the perpetrator.

The Blood Cries Out for Vengeance is a philosophical/psychological thriller reminiscent of Umberto Eco’s The Name of the Rose but set near the time and place of Cormac McCarthy’s Blood Meridian.

“Somehow blending Sherlock Holmes and Cormac McCarthy, American faith, and Catholic religion, the revolting and the sublime, the entirely desolate and the eternally hopeful, this novel is impossible to categorize or forget. It is a paradox, an impossibility—a miracle.” —WILLAM HENDEL, co-editor of misReading Plato: Continental and Psychoanalytic Glimpses Beyond the Mask

“In this work, Madrox accomplishes one of the most difficult tasks facing authors: his characters stand out off the page. If a man like the protagonist Ignacio has never lived, certainly one ought to have. He breathes life into the challenge of faith by revealing the doubt at its very core. The world he occupies is strange, but no stranger than our own. And like us, he is never at home in it.” —JEAN-LUC BEAUCHARD, author of The Mask of Memnon: Meaning and the Novel

Paperback: 184 pages.