Cradle and All (edit title)

Timothy Gray approved Timothy Gray’s request to combine 2 books, including Cradle and All, Wednesday, November 4 2009.

Timothy Gray edited the first sentence of Cradle and All Wednesday, November 4 2009.

• SUNDOWN HAD BLOODIED THE HORIZONSundown had bloodied the horizon over the uneven rooftops of South Boston.

Timothy Gray submitted a request to combine 2 books, including Cradle and All, Wednesday, November 4 2009.

Shelfari edited the description of Cradle and All Saturday, August 1 2009.

• James Patterson's Cradle and All pits the intensity of faith against the certainties of science within an arena of Millennial tensions. A reworking of his 1980 apocalyptic thriller Virgin, this remodeled version boasts a genuinely unnerving premise, amplified with Patterson's fast-paced, uncluttered prose. In the midst of a series of unexplained plagues and famines, two teenage girls are heavily pregnant, despite being virgins. According to the sacred prophecies of Fatima, one will bear the child of Christ and the other, the spawn of Satan. Both Anne Fitzgerald, a former nun turned private detective, and the Vatican's Father Rosetti are sent to investigate. But which girl carries which child? The possibility of a miracle will be tainted with great suffering before the awful, unexpected truth is revealed. As the action moves speedily from the hallowed halls of the Vatican to the media frenzy of America to the small-town hysteria of Ireland, Patterson divines considerable suspense from the novel's central premise, tackling issues of faith with admirable aplomb:"All over the world, after all the years of difficulty, decades of diminishing spirituality, so many people still believed.... Everywhere, people talked of the Apocalypse, perhaps the end of the world. Which explained why so many people were suddenly going to church."A relentless pace culminating in a superbly twisted ending won't disappoint Patterson's faithful followers, and may even convert some new members. --Danny Graydon

Shelfari edited the contributors of Cradle and All Tuesday, July 21 2009.

• reordered the contributors.
• 1 : James Patterson:

Shelfari edited the contributors of Cradle and All Thursday, July 16 2009.

• Added a contributor: James Patterson: (Primary Author)

Shelfari edited the first sentence of Cradle and All Thursday, July 16 2009.

• SUNDOWN HAD BLOODIED THE HORIZON over the uneven rooftops of South Boston.