![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Misunderstandings between cultures and people are at the heart of her story. As in her first book, Russell uses the entertaining plot to explore sociological, spiritual, religious, scientific and historical questions. When they discover the planet in turmoil and the Runa precariously in power, the temptation to interfere is more than they can withstand. In the sequel, he is forced to return to Rakhat with a new expedition more interested in profits than prophets. Having returned from a disastrous, 21st-century expedition to the planet Rakhat, Jesuit Father Emilio Sandoz, the sole survivor of the mission, faces public rage over the order's part in the war between the gentle Runa and the predatory Jana'ata-fury more than matched by the priest's own self-hatred and religious disillusionment. Russell follows her speculative first novel, The Sparrow, with a sequel that will please even readers new to her interplanetary missionaries. ![]()
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