Drum skin : novel / by Arturo Pérez-Reverte ; pen. with . Natalia Kirillova . - M. : Foreigner, ABC-Atticus, 2021. — (Big Romance). — ISBN 978-5-389-20332-7 . The classic novel of the famous Arturo Perez-Reverte, the author of such international bestsellers as the Flemish Board, the Dumas Club (the literary basis of Roman Polanski’s Ninth Gate with Johnny Depp), the seven-volume adventures of Captain Alatriste (screenplay with Vigo Mortensen) and t. d. "Skin for the Drum" is somewhat reminiscent of Umberto Eco's "The Name of the Rose" and at the same time Colin McCullough's "Singing in the Thorns". An unknown hacker infiltrates the Pope's personal computer and leaves a message about a Seville church that is "killing to protect itself" The Vatican Secret Service sends an emissary to Seville on special assignments, and Father Lorenzo Cuart plunges into the intricacies of church politics and big business. He is forced not only to conduct a detective investigation, but also to resist carnal temptations, with the latter being the hardest...