![]() The characters don't even like each other. Unfortunately, the three to four main characters are shallow, poorly developed, and not likable. DeMille also paints a great picture of the surroundings and the scene so you really feel like you are there with the characters. There is some good action and great and menacing bad guys. When you read the Amazon reviews, you'll see that DeMille fans are mad because this book was released from the 1970's with a few "updates." So do note that this is a story written decades ago, slightly updated, and released on Audible. Story was ok, but the characters weren't likeable Against the backdrop of a legend that has lasted 2,000 years, and with a love affair influencing many decisions, good eventually triumphs - but at a steep price. In the best Nelson DeMille tradition, The Quest takes listeners on a heart-pounding, thrilling ride, as well as to quite a few good bars in Rome. Thus begins their quest - a deadly adventure that pits them against the Vatican, murderous tribesmen, shadowy assassins, fanatical Coptic monks and, ultimately, against the powers of the Grail itself. But it's long enough for Father Armando to describe for our journalists the location of Christ's cup from The Last Supper - and it's long enough to make them believe his story. Unfortunately, the priest was hit, too, so his freedom only lasts for one short night. This night he has escaped from the prison because it was bombed during the day's fire fight. The dying man is a priest who has been imprisoned for 40 years because - as he tells it - he found the Holy Grail. But for some reason - one that they grapple with for the rest of their journey - that night they believe. In their hiding place, they encounter a dying man who tells them an amazing and quite unbelievable story. When the trio winds up lost in the jungle, in the no man's land between the fighting factions, they take cover and dig in for the night. ![]() Both men fall in love with the woman and that complicates things. Two journalists and a beautiful photographer are traveling together in a broken down Jeep while covering the 1975 Ethiopian civil war. From the locked archives of the Vatican to the overgrown jungles of Ethiopia, an unlikely trio begins a deadly search for the Holy Grail. ![]()
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