Daniel Silva · 2020 · thriller

Daniel Silva's 2020 novel. Gabriel Allon's Venetian holiday is cut short when the Pope dies under suspicious circumstances and a secret gospel vanishes from his chambers. Summoned to Rome, Allon uncovers a reactionary brotherhood, the Order of St. Helena, plotting to seize the papal throne - a trail that leads from the Vatican into the mountains of Switzerland.

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   Venice

   Allon has slipped into Venice for a rare holiday with his family when word comes that Pope Paul VII has died suddenly in his bed - and his loyal private secretary, Archbishop Donati, is certain it was murder.

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   Rome

   In Rome, Allon discovers that a suppressed ancient gospel has vanished from the dead pope's chambers, and that a shadowy brotherhood is maneuvering, as the conclave gathers, to place its own man on the throne of St. Peter.

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   Switzerland

   The hunt for the lost gospel and the men who killed for it leads Allon out of the Vatican and into the mountains of Switzerland, to the stronghold of the Order of St. Helena and a secret that could shake the Church.