This showed promise on the back, a secret order of assassins, operating with the connivance of the top echelons of the catholic church, ruthless machinations, but no, it didn't quite work. The story got bogged down on celibacy, unthinking faith and some stuff that went on for too long. Billed as "as shocking as the Da Vinci Code" that tag is obviously to generate sales on the coat-tails of the other book.

It could have been a very good read but instead it dragged on and on occasionally and then you would blink and miss an important bit. Not bad but nothing exceptional in it's genre. ( )

Intrigue in the Roman Catholic church regarding the election of a new pope, affiliation with the Nazis in WWII and paid official assassins for the church. Readable but frustrating at times. ( )