No Other Life - Hardcover

l bestseller is a swift, spellbinding tale of two men: Jeannot, a visionary black priest -- hailed as the new Messiah of a Caribbean island, and Father Paul Michel, the Canadian missionary who serves as his mentor. As Jeannot rises in power, making deadly enemies of the corrupt army, the mulatto elite, drug dealers and the Catholic Church, the reluctant Father Michel finds himself drawn into a drama of faith an politics.

Brian Moore was born in Belfast, Northern Ireland, in 1921. He served with the Ministry of War in North Africa, Italy, and France during the Second World War. He emigrated to Canada in 1948 and worked as a newspaper reporter for the Montreal Gazette from 1948 until 1952.

While living in Canada, Moore wrote his first three novels, The Lonely Passion of Judith Hearne, The Feast of Lupercal, and The Luck of Ginger Coffey, the first two set in Belfast, the third in Montreal. In 1959 he moved to the United States, but Canada continued to play a role in his later novels, including I Am Mary Dunne, The Great Victorian Collection, and Black Robe. His many honours included two Governor General’s Awards for Fiction.