{"product_id":"9781493067206-the-vatican-candidate-a-harper-blake-mystery","title":"Paul Bryers Paul Bryers - The Vatican Candidate A Harper \u0026 Blake Mystery - Hardcover","description":"Binding: Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\nDescription: April 1945: Europe is in ruins and Berlin is burning. As the Red Army closes in on the last few blocks surrounding the Fuhrerbunker a famous aviatrix lands her light aircraft in the center of the shattered German capital. Two days later she takes off again. With her is a man called Heinrich Bechmann SS mass killer and personal bodyguard of the German chancellor Adolf Hitler and with Bechmann is a file of documents. Nearly a century later in the spring of 2020, Pope Francis announces that he intends to open the Vatican Secret Archives to the public. A week later masked gunmen kill five people at an isolated Jesuit retreat in the mountains of Sicily. And two weeks after that the body of a celebrated British historian is discovered in a beach house on Long Island. Aiden Blake ex - Royal Marine and brother of the dead historian believes there is a mysterious link between these events stretching across seventy - five years of history. He's right and history itself will provide the clues. The trail will lead him and his brother's New York - based researcher Hannah Harper across the Atlantic to the hidden bunkers of Berlin a Gothic castle in the South Tyrol Rome Sicily and deep into the past in a bid to find his brother's killers and expose a neo - Fascist plot to kill the present Pope and replace him with one more conducive to the party's own political views and ambitions.\u003cbr\u003e\nTitle: The Vatican Candidate A Harper \u0026amp; Blake Mystery\u003cbr\u003e\nAuthor(s): Paul Bryers Paul Bryers\u003cbr\u003e\nPublisher: Globe Pequot Press\u003cbr\u003e\nBarcode: 9781493067206\u003cbr\u003e\nPages: 280 Pages\u003cbr\u003e\nPublication Date: 4\/1\/2023\u003cbr\u003e\nCategory: Historical Fiction","brand":"Paul Bryers Paul Bryers","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49617582620977,"sku":"IN-G-9781493067206","price":22.16,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0644\/6759\/9594\/files\/9781493067206.jpg?v=1724637484","url":"https:\/\/bookdelivered.com\/products\/9781493067206-the-vatican-candidate-a-harper-blake-mystery","provider":"Book Delivered","version":"1.0","type":"link"}