Windswept House: A Vatican Novel

ISBN: 0385492316

Author: Martin, Malachi

Condition: Used

In a novel hailed as one of the most powerful books of the decade (Florida Times-Union), faith and betrayal, power and conspiracy collide both inside and outside the walls of the Vatican.The Cold War has ended. With a scope and daring not possible until now, an unlikely international alliance of top-level political, financial, and religious interests sees the way clear at last to its ultimate goal: the establishment of a single global society. Utopia.These are men with nothing in common but immense power and a towering ambition for still more. With world unity and prosperity as their slogan-and with betrayal, scandal, and murder as their ready weapons-they have the means and the will to capture as their own the perfect vessel for their plans: the oldest, wiliest, and most stable political machine in the world. The Vatican.At the vortex of this lethal struggle stands the embattled Pope, a geopolitical genius whose elimination is the short-term solution to a long-term goal, and two American brothers, Paul and Christian Gladstone, one a lawyer and the other a priest, who appear to be the perfect pawns. One falls prey to the sharp teeth of greed for power. The other will become one of the Slavic Pontiffs closest allies . . . and will discover the darkest secrets at the very heart of papal Rome.From America to Europe to Russia, in broad landscapes and clandestine corridors, a rich and varied cast-presidents and politicos, simple saints and savvy sinners, popes and pope-makers-clash with one another amid dramatic and sometimes bloody events that will affect the destiny of every person alive today.

• Malachi Martin, Windswept House, paperback