Earlier this month Pope Leo XIV canonized two modern saints — they are the subject of two nonfiction selections in this week’s Newsmax Rising Bestsellers. They’re followed by memoirs written by two people prominently associated with President Donald Trump’s first term in office — Kellyanne Conway and. Gen. Michael Flynn. For fiction, there is the novel of the week, “A superb spy thriller,” according to Library Journal.
“The Poet’s Game: A Spy in Moscow,” by Paul Vidich (Pegasus Crime)
Years after leaving the CIA and restarting his life in the private sector, Alex Matthews is reluctantly dragged back. A Russian asset, one that Matthews recruited years earlier when he ran the Moscow station, has information concerning a Kremlin plot targeting the U.S. president. But the asset will only release the information after he’s been safely taken out of Russia. But getting back into the spy game means Matthews is placing everything he’s worked for in jeopardy — the safety of his new wife and family, and the successful financial firm he built from scratch. To top it off, something just doesn’t feel right about this assignment. “Every time I think Paul Vidich has reached his peak as an author in the spy novel genre, he one-ups himself and delivers another classic. ‘The Poet’s Game’ may be my favorite among those in his catalog, and that’s sayin’ somethin’. It’s that good,” wrote Michael Martz in his GoodReads review. “Loved it, now (No.) 1 in my Book of the Year list.” [Fiction]“Carlo Acutis: The First Millennial Saint,” by Nicola Gori (Our Sunday Visitor)
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