Sweat oozed from a cross held high in hand

Miguel 'Sÿd' Ruiz is the (french) author of many books - humorous (the series of "Aphorismes, paradoxes et autres...", "500 celebrities who look alike", "Les fins mots de la fin", "Apprenez l'anglais entre faux-amis"), photographs ("Le P?re-Lachaise, un cimeti?re bien vivant", "Paysages/Visages/Voyages: un tour du monde en 100 photos") ou autres ("Dictionnaire de le Guerre civile espagnole et de ses pr?mices", "Mon Paris insolite", "Dictionnaire des rues de Paris", "Dark Syd of the Floyd: les deux vies de Roger K. Barrett"). "Sweat oozed from a cross held high in hand" is his first english novel - uh, who says the last ?