Of Love and Evil

Of Love and Evil
1st edition
Author(s)	Anne Rice
Country	United States
Language	English
Publisher	Alfred A. Knopf
Publication date	November 30, 2010
Media type	Print (Paperback & Hardback)
Pages	192 pp (first edition)
ISBN	0-676-97809-6
Preceded by	Angel Time

Of Love and Evil is the second novel by American author Anne Rice in her Songs of the Seraphim series, which tells the story of Toby O'Dare, an assassin with a tragic past. The book received a 2011 Christianity Today Book Award.^[1]

Plot summary

Toby O’Dare, former government assassin, is summoned by the angel Malchiah to fifteenth-century Rome—the city of Michelangelo and Raphael, of Leo X and the Holy Inquisition—to solve a terrible crime of poisoning and to uncover the secrets of an earthbound restless spirit, a diabolical dybbuk. Toby is plunged into this rich age as a lutist sent to charm and calm this troublesome spirit.

In the fullness of the high Italian Renaissance, Toby soon discovers himself in the midst of dark plots and counterplots, surrounded by a still darker and more dangerous threat as the veil of ecclesiastical terror closes in around him. And as he once again embarks on a powerful journey of atonement, he is reconnected with his own past, with matters light and dark, fierce and tender, with the promise of salvation and with a deeper and richer vision of love.^[2]

References

1. ^ Christianity Today
2. ^ Random House

External links

• Anne Rice's Official site
• Of Love and Evil on Amazon