Jack M. Driver

Alarms bells should have gone off when I was unable to locate any record of this book in the Library of Congress’s Online Database. That and the fact that not a single person had bothered to review it on Amazon also made me a little nervous. Jack Driver’s The Vatican purports to be a book about the history of the Vatican and how it has become entangled in many conspiracy theories.

What you get, however, is far from that. To be fair, there is indeed a lot of history of Church in there, but show more mixed in with all that are ramblings on interesting coincidences that make for a very mixed message, such as “Isn’t it weird that the first major cryptographic ciphers were employed by the Jesuits? What were they hiding?” These snide questions along with very sketchy historical claims made for rough reading. His carnival ride takes us through the Tudor Dynasty, the Jewish Diaspora, the P2 Scandal, and the “inner workings” of Opus Dei.

In short, run away from this book and find something better to do with your time.

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