Bantam
March 1992
On Sale: March 1, 1992
Featuring: MacKenzie Hawkins
320 pages ISBN: 0553271091 EAN: 9780553271096 Paperback (reprint) Add to Wish List
In this wickedly funny novel, Robert Ludlum combines the explosive pacing of The Bourne Identity and The Bourne Supremacy with a bitingly witty send-up of everything from government bureaucrats and pandering military men to the mob, the law, and organized religion. War hero and infamous ladiesβ man, General MacKenzie Hawkins is a living legend. His life story had even been sold to Hollywood. But now he stands accused of defacing a historic monument in Chinaβs Forbidden City. Under house arrest in Peking, with a case against him pending in Washington, it looks like the end of Macβs illustrious career.
But he has a plan of his ownβ and it includes kidnapping the Pope. Whatβs the ransom? Just one American dollarβfor every Catholic in the world. Add to the mix a slew of shady βinvestors,β Hawkinsβs four persuasive, well-endowed ex-wives, and a young lawyer and fellow soldier who wants nothing more than to return to private lifeβand youβve got one relentlessly irreverent page-turner.