The Multicultural Book Group will meet at the 320th Federal Way library at 7 p.m. on Dec. 14 to discuss “The Relic Master” by Christopher Buckley. Community members are welcome to join this free program.

In “The Relic Master,” the year is 1517. Character Dismas is a relic hunter who procures “authentic” religious relics for wealthy and influential clients, and is as honest as any relic dealer can be. When Dismas and his artist friend Dürer conspire to manufacture a shroud to sell to the unsuspecting noble, Dürer’s reckless pride exposes Cardinal Albrecht’s newly acquired shroud as a fake. The Cardinal puts Dismas and Dürer in the custody of four loutish mercenaries and sends them all to steal Christ’s burial cloth, the Shroud of Chambéry, Europe’s most celebrated relic.