The Implacable Hunter

By Gerald Kersh

Book Overview

' This] is the story of the beginning and the end of St Paul, that most complicated and worrying of all the saints. The narrator is Diomed, a colonial officer stationed at Tarsus, enlightened, intelligent, a great fraterniser with the patrician natives, who] sends the strange young Jew to persecute the Nazarenes... Kersh brings] a highly concentrated area of Roman colonial history to very real life - the ornate wine-cup, the crapulous cold fruit-juice at dawn, dust on a sandal... King Jesus is here, all the time... the fly-itch nuisance to the Empire that wakes its prefects up in nightmare... This is a masterly book, full of live people and a live age, live language, too... We may adjudge Mr Kersh, after reading The Implaccable Hunter, to be now at the height of his powers.'

Anthony Burgess, Yorkshire Post, 1961

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0571304524
• ISBN13: 9780571304523
• Release Date: November 2013
• Publisher: Faber Finds
• Length: 250 Pages
• Weight: 0.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.1" x 7.8"