Windswept House

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