CONFESSOR’S NIGHT by Tomas Halik — CONFESSOR’S NIGHT, a first book in English translation by Czech philosopher and Catholic priest Tomas Halik, who is compared to Thomas Merton and C.S. Lewis and considered one of this century’s most original theologians, in which he offers philosophical observations on what it is like to view the events of the daily news through the eyes of a confessor, to Doubleday’s Bill Barry and Trace Murphy in a very nice two book deal by agent Marly Rusoff. (World English)