Мэтт Бэглио — новинки

On 4 November 1979, Iranian militants stormed the US embassy in Tehran and held dozens of Americans hostage. Beneath this crisis another story was known by only a few: six Americans escaped the embassy and hid within the city.
Antonio Mendez, a top CIA officer, devised an ingenious yet risky plan to rescue them. Disguising himself as a Hollywood producer, and supported by a cast of CIA operatives, foreign agents and special-effects artists, Mendez travelled to Tehran under the guise of scouting locations for a fake science-fiction film called Argo.
After three decades, Antonio Mendez finally details this complex and dangerous operation. A riveting story of secret identities and international intrigue, Argo is a pulsating account of the collusion between Hollywood and high-stakes espionage.

Обряд экзорцизма. Один из любимых мифов современного кинематографа. Однако много ли общего этот обряд имеет с реальной, вполне рутинной для Католической церкви церемонией изгнания дьявола? Немало современных священнослужителей считают экзорцизм мрачным пережитком Средневековья, когда за одержимость принимали вполне обычные эпилептические припадки, истерию или нервные срывы. Но... что же Католическая церковь понимает под экзорцизмом в наши дни? Летом 2005 года молодой американский священник записался в Ватиканский университет на курс экзорцизма, после чего в ходе практики принял участие более чем в 80 реальных обрядах. Увиденное…

In 2007, the Vatican’s chief exorcist revealed an initiative to install an exorcist in every diocese worldwide.
Three days later, the Vatican denied the story.


Father Gary Thomas was working as a parish priest in California when church leaders asked him to travel to Rome for training in the rite of exorcism. In Rome, as an apprentice to a veteran Italian exorcist, his eyes were opened to a darker side of the Catholic faith he had never known, and he came to see the battle between good and evil as never before. Journalist Matt Baglio had full access to Father Gary over the course of his training, and the astonishing story he found reveals that the phenomena of possession, demons, the Devil, and exorcism are not merely a remnant of the archaic past, but remain a fearsome power in many people’s lives even today.
The inspiration for the movie The Rite, starring Anthony Hopkins, this book provides a uniquely intimate glimpse into the chilling world of a real-life Roman Catholic exorcist.