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Gabriel Allon volume 12
Language
English
Description
When a body is found beneath Michelangelo's dome, Gabriel Allon is summoned to secretly investigate the death that has been ruled a suicide--a case that brings about an unthinkable act of sabotage.
Author
Series
Robert Langdon volume 1
Language
English
Description
When Harvard symbologist Robert Langdon is summoned to a Swiss research facility to analyze a cryptic symbol seared into the chest of a murdered physicist, he uncovers the unimaginable: a deadly vendetta against the Catholic church by a centuries-old secret organization--the Illuminati.
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Language
English
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An American lawyer investigates the assassination of a cardinal in Rome to prove his brother, a priest, did not do it. In the process, Hollywood lawyer Harry Addison discovers a Vatican plot to convert China and restore the Holy Roman Empire. The discovery makes Addison a marked man.
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Series
Publisher
Europa Editions
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
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September 1943: German forces occupy Rome. Gestapo boss Obersturmbannführer Paul Hauptmann rules with terror. Hunger is widespread. Rumors fester. The war's outcome is far from certain. Diplomats, refugees, and escaped Allied prisoners flee for protection into Vatican City, at one fifth of a square mile the world's smallest state, a neutral, independent country within Rome. A small band of unlikely friends led by a courageous Irish priest is drawn...
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Series
Gabriel Allon volume 20
Language
English
Description
Gabriel Allon has slipped quietly into Venice for a much needed holiday with his wife and two young children. But when Pope Paul VII dies suddenly, Gabriel is summoned to Rome by the Holy Father's loyal private secretary, Archbishop Luigi Donati. A billion Catholic faithful have been told that the pope died of a heart attack. Donati, however, has two good reasons to suspect his master was murdered. The Swiss Guard who was standing watch outside the...
6) Cabal
Author
Series
[Aurelio Zen mystery] volume 3
Publisher
Doubleday
Pub. Date
1993.
Language
English
Description
When, one dark night in November, Prince Ludovico Ruspanti fell a hundred and fifty feet to his death in the chapel at St Peter's, Rome, there were a number of questions to be answered. Inspector Aurelio Zen finds that getting the answers isn't easy, as witness after witness is mysteriously silenced - by violent death.
8) Vatican
Author
Publisher
Harper & Row
Pub. Date
c1986.
Language
English
Description
It is the world's oldest political power, a vast financial empire, and a maze-like bureaucracy -- and yet its sole purpose is to proclaim and effect Christian salvation. It is the Vatican, and only an insider could reveal its complex secrets; only a bestselling author could weave its many strands into the novel that captures its full sweep and drama. Vatican is a rich and monumental saga with a scope and daring that slice through the protective secrecy...
9) Woman of God
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Language
English
Description
St. Peter's Square, Rome. White smoke signals that a new Pope has been chosen. Is it possible that the new Pope is a woman? The world is watching as historic crowds gather in Rome, waiting for news of a new Pope, one who promises to be unlike any other in the Church's history. Some followers are ecstatic, but the leading candidate has made a legion of powerful enemies. From a difficult childhood with drug addled parents, to a career as a doctor on...
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