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The Secret Cardinal
Tom Grace
Nolan Kilkenny #5
Vanguard Press
October 2007
On Sale: September 25, 2007
Featuring: Nolan Kilkenny
349 pages
ISBN: 1593154569
EAN: 9781593154561
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Inspired by true events, masterful storyteller Tom Grace
delivers his most provocative novel yet. In The Secret
Cardinal, ex-Navy SEAL Nolan Kilkenny returns in an
adventure that races from the grandeur of the Vatican
across the vastness of Asia, ultimately involving China,
the Mafia, and the conclave of cardinals that will elect
the next pope. When Kilkenny is invited to Rome to
consult on the functioning of the Vatican Library, he is
still grieving the death of his wife and son and welcomes
the distraction of the seemingly simple assignment. But
Pope Leo XIV has a startlingly different task in mind for
him. In a private audience, Kilkenny learns of an
unreported atrocity committed against the underground
Church in China and its link to Yin Daoming, the long-
imprisoned Bishop of Shanghai who has served thirty years
of a life sentence in a Chinese laogai for refusing
to renounce the Church of Rome. The aging pope then
reveals the dangerous truth about Bishop Yin, a secret
that he has kept for over twenty years. Decades of
diplomacy have failed to end China's persecution of the
Catholics loyal to the pope, or to free Bishop Yin. The
pope wants Yin free and asks Kilkenny to devise a plan to
accomplish this seemingly impossible task. With help
from the U.S. president, American Special Forces, and the
C.I.A., he assembles a team of ten men and one woman that
will use some of the most advanced weapons, aircraft, and
computer technology to execute this extraordinary mission.
Filled with fascinating detail about the history,
politics, and people of China and the Roman Catholic
Church, and the clever advanced technology and weaponry
that have become hallmarks of a Tom Grace novel, The
Secret Cardinal charges relentlessly toward an
unexpected and unforgettable conclusion.
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