Peter Watson

Vatican Vendetta (eBook, ePUB)

An Art-World Mystery

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

An ambitious American pope makes powerful enemies-from the Italian Mafia to the US President-in this fascinating thriller that "could be next week's news" (Daily Mail). What if the unused riches of the Catholic Church were called upon to combat global poverty? Following a tragic earthquake in Italy, Pope Thomas-the first American pontiff and a transformative leader-auctions off one of the Vatican's Renaissance masterpieces to aid in the recovery. The sale is such a success that he decides to go even further: organizing the greatest art auction ever held, with the proceeds going to help the poor. But as the pope's charitable designs acquire political overtones, he encounters resistance from world leaders, including the president of the United States. And closer to the Vatican, the Mafia have as much interest in the poor as do popes and presidents . . . "Master of the art-world thriller" (Publishers Weekly), Peter Watson turns his attention to a different kind of political thriller, as Vatican Vendetta-previously published as Crusade-delivers "nonstop action" (The Guardian).

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: MysteriousPress.com/Open Road
• Seitenzahl: 336
• Erscheinungstermin: 28. November 2017
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781504046855
• Artikelnr.: 49731735

Autorenporträt

Peter Watson has been a senioreditor at the London Sunday Times, a New York correspondentof the London Times, a columnist for theLondon Observer, and a contributor to the New YorkTimes. He has published three exposés on the world ofart and antiquities, and is the author of several booksof cultural and intellectual history. From 1997 to 2007he was a research associate at the McDonald Institutefor Archaeological Research at the University of Cambridge.He lives in London.