The Fifth Gospel: by Ian Caldwell | Summary & Analysis

By IRB Media

This companion to The Fifth Gospel includes:

• Summary of the book

• Character Analysis

• A Discussion on Themes

• and much more!

• Language: English
• Publisher: IRB Media
• Release date: Apr 27, 2015
• ISBN: 9781943427468

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The Fifth Gospel

Summary & Analysis

by

Ian Caldwell

Table of Contents

| Summary |      3

Main Characters      11

| Analysis |      13

Character Analysis      13

Character Relationships      16

Themes      19

Author’s Style      27

| Summary |

The Fifth Gospel by Ian Caldwell is a literary thriller that takes place in 2004 at the Vatican, the chief residence of the Catholic Pope in Italy. The novel follows the aftermath of Vatican museum curator, Ugolino Nogara’s, murder.

Brothers, Alex and Simon Andreou, are both priests. Alex is a Greek Orthodox priest and Simon is a Roman Catholic priest as well as Vatican diplomat in the Secretariat. Their opposing religious affiliations place the brothers on opposite sides of a centuries old feud between the two churches.

Alex is married, but his wife, Mona, left him and their son, Peter, when the boy was a baby.

Ugolino Nogara is planning an art exhibit in the Vatican museum. A week before the exhibit is to open, Ugo is found dead. The discovery is reported by both Alex and Simon. That same night, a man breaks into Alex’s apartment. Peter and the nun who cares for him hide and escape unharmed.

When Simon introduced his friend Ugo Nogara to Alex, Ugo claimed that the Shroud of Turin, a piece of cloth that is supposed to be the cloth used to wrap Jesus Christ’s body after his crucifixion, was real even though scientists have shown through carbon dating that it is