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The Vatican Candidate: A Harper & Blake Mystery

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Aiden Blake, ex-Royal Marine, and researcher Hannah Harper follow a trail from the hidden bunkers of Berlin to the mountains of Italy to solve how a present-day murder and a plot to kill the Pope are connected to a famous German aviatrix’s final flight out of Berlin in April...

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Product ID:9781493067206
Product Form:Hardback
Country of Manufacture:GB
Title:The Vatican Candidate
Subtitle:A Harper & Blake Mystery
Authors:Author: Paul Bryers Paul Bryers
Page Count:280
Subjects:Historical crime and mysteries, Historical mysteries, Thriller / suspense fiction, Adventure / action fiction, Second World War fiction, Historical fiction, Thriller / suspense, Adventure, Second World War fiction, Historical fiction, c 1939 to c 1945 (including WW2)
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Aiden Blake, ex-Royal Marine, and researcher Hannah Harper follow a trail from the hidden bunkers of Berlin to the mountains of Italy to solve how a present-day murder and a plot to kill the Pope are connected to a famous German aviatrix’s final flight out of Berlin in April 1945.

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.


Imprint Name:McBooks Press
Publisher Name:Globe Pequot Press
Country of Publication:GB
Publishing Date:2023-04-01