Some Rise by Sin : A Novel (CD-Audio)

from rufusraider

Some Rise by Sin is a novel by Philip Caputo. The book tells the story of an American priest who has relocated to a remote Mexican village to serve the town. The story is set in a village that is at the center of the battle between the Mexican government and the drug cartels. It is a test of his ...

from mike1990

I really liked the premise of this. The politics of cartel run areas of Mexico came to life in this. Is this story completely plausible? Maybe not, but it was a very interesting read. The characters were developed well, all had a interesting background. Never read anything by Mr Caputo, but I mig...

from SamSattler

Over the years, Philip Caputo has earned a reputation as a master storyteller. Caputo's novels are as character-driven as they are plot-driven, and that finely tuned balance seldom fails to make them memorable and moving reads. Regular Caputo readers have come to expect nothing less from the auth...

from BradKautz

Philip Caputo is a very gifted storyteller, something that come through the pages of Some Rise By Sin from it's very beginning straight through until the end. Set in rural Mexico with the drug war as a backdrop, Caputo uses a plausible storyline and compelling characters to weave a tapestry that ...

from kvrfan

There are echoes here of Graham Greene's The Power and the Glory: a gringo priest struggling with a crisis of faith and conscience in a dangerous Latin-American setting. But Some Rise By Sin tells its own story. Tim Riordan is a middle-aged American Franciscan priest who has come to share the res...