The Infidels — Adam M. Zahorski

Who are... The Infidels? A secret society of thirteen, twelve at the heart of the British Establishment and a US Senator; thirteen very important people, all with a strong connection to St Mark's College, Cambridge; thirteen militant atheists. Emmanuel Horowitz, President of the Infidels, is dead. One of the richest men in the world, his will contains one dramatic surprise: "I leave the sum of ten million pounds. to finally determine. whether there is any credible evidence which would entitle a rational person to believe in the existence of God." The arbitrators and Counsel appointed all have their own agendas, and their own demons; some are on the side of the angels, and some on that of the sceptics; all are driven by faith and by doubt, by lust and by love. This is a fascinating, adventurous novel, which takes us from Rome to Cambridge and to hotel bedrooms, adultery, sodomy and fornication around Europe; the finest of food and drink, and rampant sex, both natural and unnatural, within and without the bounds of the Holy Church; but, underlying a fast and disturbing narrative, is the search, through philosophy and religion, for truth and the answer to mankind's oldest question: is there a God?