Punish the Sinners - Audio CD - Abridged Author:John Saul, David Daoust (Narrator) Italy, 1252 — Inquisition. Accusation. Fear. Torture. The guilty and the innocent dying for sins real and imagined, in the flames of the burning stake ... — Neilsville, 1978 — Peter Balsam has come to this sleepy desert town to teach its youth, and finds a mystery of mounting horror. Something is happening to the young girls of St. Francis Xav... more »ier High School -- something evil. In bloodlet and terror a suicide contagion has swept the town ... while a dark order of its holy men enacts a secret medieval ritual. Is hysteria manipulating these innocent children into violent self-destruction? Or has a supernatural force, a thirteenth-century madness, returned to ... Punish the Sinners?
Audio Review:
In Saul's second horror novel a priest has summoned an old school chum to teach psychology at a parochial school. Shortly after classes begin, a rash of suicides takes place, connected somehow to the new teacher. Or could they have something to do with the sadistic fifteenth-century "saint" venerated by the school's elite? This abridgment is given a particularly graceless and inept reading that should horrify the author, if no one else. -- AudioFile
Abridged: 5 Compact Discs, Running Time: 6 hours, Narrator: David Daoust.« less