Sanctus: A Novel

Name: Sanctus: A Novel
Rating: 4.448276042938232 (29 reviews)

Simon Toyne

Sep 2011 · The Sanctus Trilogy Book 1 · Sold by Harper Collins

29 reviews

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“If a thriller has to be one thing it’s thrilling, and Simon Toyne’s Sanctus is thrilling with bells on….A roller coaster ride through a dark world of conspiracy and betrayal.”
—Paul Christopher, author of The Templar Conspiracy

If you are a fan of top-notch conspiracy fiction that keeps you up late nights turning pages—if the bestselling novels of Steve Berry, James Rollins, Dan Brown, Raymond Khoury, and Chris Kuzneski make your heart race faster—then remember the name Simon Toyne! Already a smash instant bestseller in the United Kingdom (“Intriguing and engaging…[with a] relentless pace” The Sun) Toyne’s Sanctus is, quite simply, one of the most extraordinary conspiracy thriller debuts in many years. In this electrifying, nonstop adventure, a young newspaper reporter, driven by the memory of her lost brother, uncovers a dark secret nurtured for 3,000 years by blood and lies by adherents of an ancient, unknown religion in a Vatican-like citadel hidden away for millennia from unwelcomed prying eyes.

“If a thriller has to be one thing it’s thrilling, and Simon Toyne’s Sanctus is thrilling with bells on….A roller coaster ride through a dark world of conspiracy and betrayal.” —Paul Christopher, author of The Templar Conspiracy If you are a fan of top-notch conspiracy fiction that keeps you up l...

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29 reviews

Jennifer Dowdall

July 3, 2017

I knew nothing about this book when I purchased it. It turned out to be a pleasant surprise. It's long but, with short chapters, easy to read in brief jags or lengthier sessions. It's well-written with a penchant for dropping key details or hints that maintain the reader's interest. The storyline seemed similar to The Da Vinci Code or Angels and Demons. However, it is not a copycat and makes its own way in the literary world. I would recommend it.

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Jennifer Graziano

June 7, 2025

Normal challenges are not to be disturbed; at all touched, or have own domain entered. It's a master and leader of own life. Breathing is mastered by the toddler year because growing out of the word is the only way to bigger ones behind them. Meditating: yoga, walking and talking the same year provide strength for own schedule of busy people. Combining the words science and religion for 'let there be light" are required for psychiatrist's evaluation result of normal - defends own money well - being. To get normal results from the doctors is the only survival. These is not more from them then normal or not.

Sedrick Blaze

February 5, 2015

I have the paperback copy of the book and I am truly mesmerized by it. This book makes you wonder does this cover up happens in the USA and also in the Vatican and or anywhere else in the world?

About the author

Simon Toyne is the author of the internationally bestselling Sanctus trilogy (Sanctus, The Key, and The Tower), The Searcher, The Boy Who Saw, Dark Objects and The Clearing and has worked in British television for more than twenty years. As a writer, director, and producer he’s made several award-winning shows, one of which won a BAFTA. He lives in England with his wife and family, where he is permanently at work on his next novel.

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