The Bone Church
After secretly witnessing the murder of
his father at the hands of a Nazi thug, Czech hockey star Felix Andel sets his
sights on revenge. Soon Felix and his
half-Jewish lover, Magdalena Ruza, become embroiled in a Prague Underground
plot to assassinate the man who ordered the hit on his father: Hitler’s nefarious Minister of Propaganda,
Josef Goebbels.
But in the surreal and paranoid
underworld of wartime Prague, Felix and Magdalena must forge unlikely alliances
in their quest—with a mysterious Roman Catholic Cardinal, a reckless sculptor intent
on making a big political statement, and a gypsy with a dangerous sex
life.
When the assassination attempt against
Goebbels goes wildly wrong, fierce historical winds blow the lovers in separate
directions. Critically wounded and
slipping into a fog of extraordinary visions, Felix’s destiny is sealed at The
Bone Church, a mystical pilgrimage site on the outskirts of Prague where he
experiences a religious conversion.
Magdalena, abandoned by the Cardinal who promised her safe passage out
of the country, goes deep into hiding lest she be rounded up and transported to
Auschwitz.
Twelve years pass.
Felix, now a Jesuit priest, is an
emissary for people in trouble. From
Vienna, he runs a Vatican-financed operation that smuggles prominent dissidents
out of Soviet-occupied countries. Only
this time, it’s Magdalena who needs his help.
After a long exile in various political prisons, she turns up in a bleak
corner of the Czech countryside – disgraced, impoverished and struggling to
stay alive. Felix’s superior in
Rome, the Cardinal who betrayed Magdalena, reluctantly dispatches him to
collect her.
With government security forces closing in
around them as they run for the border, the émigré priest is forced to confront
his past…and the fragility of his faith.
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