As the head of Vatican security, Giovanni Figlia must protect a new, African Pope who courts controversy every other day. The Pope’s latest project is to make Pius XII, “Hitler’s Pope,” a saint. Things haven’t gotten better since the Pope employed American mercenary Sean Ryan.
Then a body fell onto the Vatican doorstep.
Mercenaries, spies, beautiful women, international intrigue and ancient secrets – The Pius Trilogy has it all!
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Review
"A truly riveting read from first page to last, "A Pius Man" offers a suspense thriller replete with unexpected twists and surprising turns. A deftly crafted novel from beginning to end, "A Pius Man" certifies author Declan Finn as a master storyteller of immense talent and imagination." ~Small Press Bookwatch
From the Author
A Pius Man is what happens when you combine a fan of action films with a history degree. Forget Dan Brown. A Pius Man comes with footnotes, and an online code for a full bibliography.
A Pius Man is a mystery with too many suspects.
In Rome, a terrorist is blown out the window of a hotel and crash-lands on a car at the gates of the Vatican. A figure in a priest's robes is seen running from the scene. But the body on the windshield is just the beginning for a team of six unlikely investigators from around the world. Each pair of hands on this case has a past, and a few secrets ... and an axe to grind. They don't want to work together. They don't want this case.
And one of them just might be the killer. Our suspect list consists of...
Sean Ryan, an American stuntman turned mercenary and self-described "cleanser of the gene pool." He's supposed to be in Rome to train priests in combat, but old habits die hard.
Then there's Giovanni Figlia, a homicide cop for the Pope who fears only paperwork. He was best known for starting soccer games with bishops in the Borgia gardens ... until the corpse landed on the hood of his Jetta.
A former U.S. Army chaplain who was meeting with the murdered man on a weekly basis. Did the Jesuit priest who's killed men with his bare hands know that his weekly luncheon date had just murdered a researcher in the Vatican Archives?
Scott "Mossad" Murphy of Israeli intelligence's "Goyim Brigade": He's in the middle of investigating another murder at the Vatican ... this one a high-ranking Muslim leader with connections to al-Qaeda.
Into this mix comes Maureen McGrail, an Irish Interpol agent with a bitter past with Sean Ryan. She's working her own murder case, related to the controversial canonization of Pope Pius XII, sometimes known as "Hitler's Pope." And guess who Interpol wants to send to Rome ... ?
And the final, most distressing suspect is Joshua Kutjok....aka Pope Pius XIII, a right-wing African pope with rumors of blood in his past and the stated goal of turning "Hitler's Pope" into the "Hero of the Holocaust." To accomplish this goal, he's already let terrorists into the Vatican Archives ... would he kill a man who stood in his way?
In A Pius Man , six unlikely heroes must work together to unravel a web of intrigue and murder that entwines one of the most controversial figures of the twentieth century. Was Pius XII a Nazi collaborator who deliberately let millions of Jews die? Has the Vatican covered up the truth for more than 60 years? Or has someone perpetrated a decades-long smear campaign? And what will happen to six strangers trying to finally bring the truth to light?
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Murder in the Vatican!
As the head of Vatican security, Giovanni Figlia must protect a new, African Pope who courts controversy every other day. The Pope’s latest project is to make Pius XII, “Hitler’s Pope,” a saint. Things haven’t gotten better since the Pope employed American mercenary Sean Ryan.
Then a body fell onto the Vatican doorstep.
Mercenaries, spies, beautiful women, international intrigue and ancient secrets – The Pius Trilogy has it all! **
Review
"A truly riveting read from first page to last, "A Pius Man" offers a suspense thriller replete with unexpected twists and surprising turns. A deftly crafted novel from beginning to end, "A Pius Man" certifies author Declan Finn as a master storyteller of immense talent and imagination." ~Small Press Bookwatch
From the Author
A Pius Man is what happens when you combine a fan of action films with a history degree. Forget Dan Brown. A Pius Man comes with footnotes, and an online code for a full bibliography.
A Pius Man is a mystery with too many suspects.
In Rome, a terrorist is blown out the window of a hotel and crash-lands on a car at the gates of the Vatican. A figure in a priest's robes is seen running from the scene. But the body on the windshield is just the beginning for a team of six unlikely investigators from around the world. Each pair of hands on this case has a past, and a few secrets ... and an axe to grind. They don't want to work together. They don't want this case.
And one of them just might be the killer. Our suspect list consists of...
Sean Ryan, an American stuntman turned mercenary and self-described "cleanser of the gene pool." He's supposed to be in Rome to train priests in combat, but old habits die hard.
Then there's Giovanni Figlia, a homicide cop for the Pope who fears only paperwork. He was best known for starting soccer games with bishops in the Borgia gardens ... until the corpse landed on the hood of his Jetta.
A former U.S. Army chaplain who was meeting with the murdered man on a weekly basis. Did the Jesuit priest who's killed men with his bare hands know that his weekly luncheon date had just murdered a researcher in the Vatican Archives?
Scott "Mossad" Murphy of Israeli intelligence's "Goyim Brigade": He's in the middle of investigating another murder at the Vatican ... this one a high-ranking Muslim leader with connections to al-Qaeda.
Into this mix comes Maureen McGrail, an Irish Interpol agent with a bitter past with Sean Ryan. She's working her own murder case, related to the controversial canonization of Pope Pius XII, sometimes known as "Hitler's Pope." And guess who Interpol wants to send to Rome ... ?
And the final, most distressing suspect is Joshua Kutjok....aka Pope Pius XIII, a right-wing African pope with rumors of blood in his past and the stated goal of turning "Hitler's Pope" into the "Hero of the Holocaust." To accomplish this goal, he's already let terrorists into the Vatican Archives ... would he kill a man who stood in his way?
In A Pius Man , six unlikely heroes must work together to unravel a web of intrigue and murder that entwines one of the most controversial figures of the twentieth century. Was Pius XII a Nazi collaborator who deliberately let millions of Jews die? Has the Vatican covered up the truth for more than 60 years? Or has someone perpetrated a decades-long smear campaign? And what will happen to six strangers trying to finally bring the truth to light?