"A wondefully full, well-researched historical novel, comparable in scope and narrative power to Umberto Eco's Name of the Rose."

-Alibris Books

"[The Franciscan Conspiracy is] a fantastic and a wonderful reading adventure that kept me awake basically all through the night. Both I and our editor (who has the same exciting night behind her) were truly impressed with how John Sack succeeds in telling the story of Conrad’s quest for both the truth behind the Franciscan legends and for the “true” meaning of love and simplicity in his own life, a story that, to us, got more and more suspenseful and touching as we read along. We just loved the way John Sack told the story -- in an elegant, yet compelling way, erudite and at the same time “commercial,” both informative and moving – a combination that, as we all know, is so rare and hard to find."

-Droemer-Knaur

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