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For years the CIA have been using a poison
designed to cause a heart attack and then disperse without
a trace. Now a batch has gone missing.
On a visit to Rome, Peter White is recruited
by his old friend Costanza into the oldest secret society
in the world, in order to help her solve an urgent problem.
Cardinals and other clerics around the world are dying of
unexpected heart attacks. Police authorities are not interested
as there is no evidence of foul play. But Costanza believes
someone is using electronic cash and a betting website to
fund and coordinate a campaign of murders that will ultimately
lead to the assassination of the Pope. She and Peter must
track down the killer before any more people die. Using the
world’s largest supercomputer, deep in the Secret Archives
beneath the Vatican Library, they lay an electronic trap and
wait. But when the Library itself becomes the target of an
audacious plot to steal a 2000 year old manuscript, the problem
suddenly becomes much more personal.
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