The Crucifix
by Ray Sproule

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At the age of fourteen, Marciano kills a pedophilic abbot with the sharpened point of a crucifix, driving him to take refuge in a remote mountain villa in Corsica, devoted to training assassins and forcing him into a career as a notorious assassin known as The Crucifix. Later, he attempts to break free of his French Milieu masters and is pursued from Morocco to Paris, the Greek island of Mykonos, Messina, and finally, the Spanish Sahara. Throughout, he strives to find a belief, not in God so much, but in something more significant, his true nature.

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Ray Sproule has a Ph.D. in Mathematics from the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. He has been writing fiction since the age of seventeen. His influences range from Kurt Vonnegut, Ray Bradbury, and Martin Cruz Smith to Nabokov and Dostoevsky. His first book, The Paranoian, was published in 2022, his second, Femme Devereux, in 2023. He was born in Montreal and raised two sons as a single parent. He lives on Vancouver Island, B.C., and enjoys traveling, mountaineering, chess, karate, and reading.

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