Q follows the adventures of a student of Thomas Munzer, Anabaptist and leader of the abortive Peasants' Revolt of 1524-25, who goes under many names, the first of which is Gustav Metzger, and Q, a papal informer. One of the sects which sprang up during the Reformation was the Anabaptists, Christians who discredited infant baptism and believed that the Bible was the only rule for faith and life. After Luther hangs his 95 theses on the door of the Wittenberg Church, nothing is ever the same in the hallowed halls of Christianity. It remains a bestseller in Italy and has become a cult hit throughout Europe. Four young Italians in Bologna wrote Q in the mid 1990s.
There are Luther Blissetts writing, drawing, and carrying out elaborate hoaxes all over the world. This hapless fellow inspired a group of Italian artists to appropriate his name and attach it to all manner of projects. He was victimized by Italian fans, whose racist and nasty comments caused his career to take a dive.
Luther Blissett, the "author" of Q is the name of a Jamaican soccer player who played for AC Milan in the early l980s. Review: The story of Q begins with the mystery surrounding the author(s). What begins as a personal struggle to reveal each other's identity becomes a mission that can only end in death.
Synopsis: In 1517, Martin Luther nails his ninety-five theses to the door of Wittenburg Cathedral, and a dance of death begins between a radical Anabaptist with many names and a loyal papal spy known mysteriously as "Q." In this brilliantly conceived literary thriller set in the chaos of the Reformation-an age devastated by wars of religion-a young theology student adopts the cause of heretics and the disinherited and finds himself pursued by a relentless papal informer and heretic hunter.
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