‘Fast and funny, with bonus marks for well-used ambience’ – LITERARY REVIEW ‘A pulsating and plausible thriller’ – LITTLE BROWN Andy Chapman, Rome correspondent for a London newspaper, investigates the brutal killing of a controversial left-wing priest and discovers evidence which appears to implicate the Vatican in the death. He turns his information over to the investigating magistrate, the beautiful Elena Fiorini, and together they begin a hunt for the killers. Probing deeper, they find themselves up against the might of the Catholic Church and a sinister network of neo-Fascist fanatics. They are drawn into a terrifying web of betrayal and violent death, and their own lives are put at risk.