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Summary: A masterful blend of fact and fiction!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Review: The picture the author portrays is mind-boggling but true except of course for the names of some of the characters. It is sad but true that I as a Catholic holding onto the remnants of Faith as handed down the centuries by the Church can immediately recognize the diabolical orientation the Catholic Church has undergone in the last 50 or so years as was so remarkably laid forth in this novel. A must read for anyone wanting behind the scenes knowledge of the present crisis in Western Civilization especially as embodied by the Roman Catholic Church and its priesthood.
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Summary: Malachi Martin's Faction: Who really Won the Cold War?
Review: Windswept is a perfect sequel to Malachi Martin's book, The Keys of This Bood. Any American who is puzzled about the recent turn of events in the Clinton Matter needs to purchase both the Keys of This Blood . . . and Windswept House. Malachi Martin has opened the door to critical thought. For those who ascribe to New Testament gospel teachings, Christ's warning, "Know them by their fruit," takes on a modern day, ominous meaning. Windswept House focuses on the Catholic Church. The mighty Vatican has been rendered impotent by infiltrators who embark on a spying venture as well as a search and destroy mission. In the process, they successfully isolate and denigrate opponents. In some cases, the shadow of assasination lurks as a termination tool. Father Martin witnessed the opening salvo of the One World group as they attacked the Catholic Church hierarchs. In short, he was a fact witness. His work of "Faction", Windswept House, is acknowedged to be at least 85-90% fact presented in fictional form. It appears that world-wide Godless Socialism and Nihilism are winning the race for world dominion. Reading this book is like watching a tidal wave as it heads our way, devouring all life in its path. There is no doubt as to who will be the coming victims - it is us. Those who believe that we won the Cold War, and have chosen to replace dogmatically held beliefs with situational ethics, should read both Windswept House and the Keys of This Blood.
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Summary: Why not just read the vampire novels.
Review: I kept on persevering through about two-thirds of this fantasy until it finally quenched the most dedicated reader. It passes belief that those who are rebelling against the medievality of the Roman Church should be caught up in an equally medieval concept of worship of Satan. The papal politics in the first part is incredibly boring, and the last part just gets sillier and sillier. It is difficult for me to believe that so many reviewers seem to take it seriously. I cannot see how it can possibly be compared to either Greeley's White Smoke or Morris West' s book.
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Summary: "Faction" is a good name for it
Review: This is not the best written story I have ever read, but certainly one of the more interesting. It is an accurate description of the current state of the Roman Catholic Church -- Protestantized and overrun by secular humanists, it has no identity with anything in its history before 1965. While the reasons for this change can be construed as belonging solely to the realm of fiction, many of the events are allusions to events that have really occurred and can be verified with a little effort (e.g., certain ritualistic slayings of priests in the midwest). The motivations and attitutes of the principle hierarchical protagonists are nothing short of fact especially for those of us who at one time lived under the watchful eye of the "Cardinal of Century City" in a diocese which used to be one of the largest, most Catholic areas of the country (anyone can figure out which deceased U.S. Cardinal he represents with some little effort) whose orchestrations and two-faced dealings are only beginning to come to light today, but are quickly buried by the NCCB. If you're confused why the Church has changed so much, how it can go from the Church of Christ which concentrated on pleasing the Lord above all, to one of the main proponents of Masonic secular humanism which concentrates only on pleasing man and catering to his (or her) social whims in only 30 or so years, this is one not-so-pleasant theory. How much is true, I am afraid to guess, but I will say this book accurately reflects the current condition of the Roman Catholic Church in an artistic manner.
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Summary: Globalism from within the global Church - unique perspective
Review: The author's background of high service to the world's oldest and most global political empire, the Roman Catholic Church, provides for a much more clear picture of current geo-political trends than possible from any national press or politician. As someone very involved in politics I normally detest even the mention of buzz phrases such as the New World Order. Fr. Martin finally puts the correct face on the NWO: globalism in and of itself isn't what's bad and deserving of our opposition; it's the absence of a moral base accompanying the movement that is most dangerous. While a long and detailed read, Windswept House never fails to tell a story for even a moment. Mid-way, I was glad it was long so the story wouldn't end. By the end, I was wanting to add a hundred more pages.
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Summary: Riviting, compelling for Catholics and non-catholics alike
Review: Malachi Martin's book is like watching history in the making, as one is confronted with the fact that there are Cardinals who are satanists, homosexuals, anti-papists and other high level individuals that we never hear about who are dedicated to one world rule. Apparently the Pope is surrounded by men in clerical garb who are working hand in hand with financial institutions, educators, governments, foundations, and non-governmental organizations such as Masonry to bring the new world order into existence. It's a book written by a man who apparently grieves over the state of the church today. As a non-catholic I found the book compelling because the "updating" of dogma and the modernism taking place in the Catholic church is also taking place in non-Catholic seminaries and churches. It's a matter of concern for many who desire to be true to our Lord Jesus Christ.
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Summary: As a work of fiction, the book is fine
Review: Malachi Martin is a competent fiction writer whose novels are compelling and readable. Windswept House is also compelling. But, Mr. Martin claims that his book is not fiction, but a FACTion, according to a recent interview on the Art Bell Show. He states that he uses the FACTion form rather than non-fiction form to "protect us". Although the FACTion form may have its place it seems ethically necessary for the author to present some evidence for the facts that he intertwines with the fiction. For Windswept House, Mr. Martin claims that 80% of this novel is indeed fact. Some of these "facts" are readily apparent merely from observation of real "public" events and trends. Other "facts" involve things for which Mr. Martin could not possibly know personally (behind closed door types of information). Regardless of numerous requests for evidence of his assertions about closed-door issues, Mr. Martin refuses to offer any. The primary review of this book needs to be -- it is FICTION, not fact. In a world that thinks docudramas on T.V. are fact and real history, perhaps this is too much to ask? Thus as a novel and SOLELY as a novel I would give this book 2 1/2 - 3 stars. Since Mr. Martin asserts that it is not fiction, but a FACTion book, then we must judge the book not only from a literary fiction point-of-view, but also on the veracity of the alledged facts. When giving that sort of analysis appropriate to FACTion, then one star must be assessed since he provides not a shread of evidence to backup his sensational "facts" (either in footnotes or in interviews).
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Summary: The novel answers complex questions.
Review: Windswept House is more fact than fiction to those of us who read "The Wanderer," an obscure newspaper which documents the disintegration of the Catholic Church. Even the satanic ritual for the enthronement of "The Prince" is apparently meant to be fact, as it is described with other factual events in the "History as Prologue" rather than the novel per se. Martin is highly knowledgeable on that subject, being an exorcist. Exorcism is a grueling task involving much conversation with demons, as they are being expelled. A major insight in the novel is to answer the enigmatic question of why the "Slavic Pope" does not take effective action against clerics who defy church rules in reducing an historical edifice to rubble. This point is in fact a major theme, if not the major theme, of the novel; and it is explored from numerous complex angles and built to a climax, where it is left reverberating in time in the closing scene.
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Summary: Martin is not afraid to reveal the wiles of the devil.
Review: Martin's novel is a deftly written piece that veils the turbulent and often satanic world of the Vatican. His title Windswept House is in itself a commentary on the harm that has come to the Church since the Second Vatican Council which has plunged the Church to the brink of collapse. Despite the dilemma Martin makes it quite clear that this dissention is necessary since the devil wishes to destroy the Church Jesus has founded. It is not ironic that it is the heirarchy in the form of Maestroanni and his accomplices who await its destruction just as Jesus was executed by his Jewish heirarchy. In the novel Martin clearly shows how this detractors are merely humanists who seek man-made peace rather than having faith that Jesus will soon return to establish His kingdom. Like Lucifer, they have a better plan and they will not serve. Delicately he also goes on to display the confusion experienced by Traditional Catholics as seen through CHristian Gladstone who querie! ! s why this Pope excommunicates Traditionalists while allowing the heretical to contine unabated. LIke Christian, we see the Slavic Pope as guilty of the sin of omission for not doing more to protect the faith. Not only does Martin reveal the Vatican's part but also the EU and the United States government and finally the Freemasons which so pervade the Church heirarchy and which compel all new world order memebers to join. Martin knows the progression of pornography, homosexuality, bestiality and finally Satanism which ensnare so many. This book although frightening forces the "true" believer whether Catholic or protestant to see the widespread conspiracy which awaits us at the coming of the anti-christ and his false prophet. Yet he gives us hope as in young Christian Gladstone that the Church-the true Church- of which there is only a remnant will triumph.
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Summary: One of the most revealing books on the catholic faith
Review: One of the best novels ive read!
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