Alan Champorcher
ASIN: B00KM5GW9Q
Publisher: Ciamporcero Publishing
Pages: 265
John Adams Conti, descendant of American presidents and Italian farmers, returns to action in Rome when he learns of a plot to usurp the power of the Catholic Church for political ends. In The Vatican Strategy, Conti finds himself bored with managing the family estate near Milan. Having quit the CIA, he misses the excitement of life as a spy. His friend, undercover Israeli agent Rabbi Amos Cadiz, draws him into a probe of the well-financed activities of the Legion of Jesus, a far right-wing Catholic sect. Where is the money coming from, where is it going, and who is calling the shots? With the help of his former associate and sometime girlfriend Jill Burnham, who has risen in the CIA bureaucracy, Conti teams up with Cadiz to investigate a shadowy conspiracy of conservative Cardinals, Mafia-led antiquities thieves, government officials, and their big money backers in the U.S. From ...