Saint Leibowitz and the Wild Horse Woman (Saint Leibowitz 2)

It has been nearly 40 years since Walter M. Miller, Jr., shocked & dazzled readers with his provocative & enduring classic, A Canticle for Leibowitz. Now... here is Miller's masterpiece, an epic intellectual & emotional tour de force... In a world struggling to transcend a terrifying legacy of darkness-a world torn between love & violence, good & evil-one man undertakes an odyssey of adventure & discovery that promises to alter not only his destiny but the destiny of humankind as well.. Millennia have passed since the Flame Deluge, yet society remains fragmented, pockets of civilization besieged by barbarians. The Church is in turmoil, the exiled papacy struggling to survive in its Rocky Mountain refuge ... Meanwhile, isolated in Leibowitz Abbey, Brother Blacktooth St. George suffers a crisis of faith. Torn between his vows & his Nomad upbringing, between the Holy Virgin & visions of the Wild Horse Woman of his people, he stands at the brink of disgrace & expulsion from his order. But he is offered an escape-of sorts: a new assignment as a translator for Cardinal Brownpony, which will take him ... to the city of New Rome. Journeying across a continent divided by nature, politics, & war, Blacktooth is drawn into Brownpony's intrigues & conspiracies. He bears witness to rebellion, assassination, & human sacrifice. & he is introduced to the sins that monastery life has long held at bay. This introduction comes in the form of AEdrea, a beautiful but forbidden "genny" living among the deformed & mutant castouts in Texark's most hostile terrain. Picaresque & passionate, magnificent, dark, & compellingly real, Saint Leibowitz and the Wild Horse Woman is a brutal, brilliant, thrilling tale of mystery, mysticism, & divine madness, a classic that will long endure in every reader's memory. Following a nuclear war, the Dark Ages descend on 32nd century America which has split into warring nations. Only the Catholic Church has any influence and the novel follows the travels of its peace envoy, Brother Blacktooth