Vatican Thrillers

From spy thriller author, Richard Lyntton, another explosive international thriller featuring British journalist and veteran tank commander, Jack Steele. [Note from the author: Although The Deception Series was written in order – Book 1, Book 2, Book 3 - you can also read the series in “chronological order” – Book 3, Book 2, Book 1] Leningrad 1989. The Cold War is over. Or is it? Amid the euphoria over the looming US-Soviet presidential summit, forces conspire to destroy the peace process … Set in Berlin, Leningrad (now St. Petersburg), London, Venice, Stockholm, and the island of...

In the wilds of Mongolia, a research satellite has crashed, triggering an explosive search for its valuable cargo: a code-black physics project connected to the study of dark energy...and a shocking image of the eastern seaboard of the United States in utter ruin. At the Vatican, a package arrives containing two strange artifacts: a skull scrawled with ancient Aramaic and a tome bound in human skin. DNA evidence reveals that both came from the same body: the long-dead Mongol king Genghis Khan.

In this exciting suspense novel, the action occurs in Rome, London, and St. Louis, Missouri. A Swiss Guard named Alberto Burke and Dr. Leo Leonard, a college professor, enter the battle between good and evil. They try to prevent a satanic coven from obtaining some powerful spell scrolls. Alberto and Leo are helped by two talk radio hosts (Mark Tobin and Megan Aquilina) who are investigating some mysterious murders. The action in this novel moves relentlessly toward a shocking surprise ending. ************************************************************** Excerpt: On a pleasant London ...

"Officially" the Vatican has no espionage service; but does no one carry out intelligence operations on its behalf? During the Second World War and Cold War, Rome was teeming with spies. A band of undercover monsignors and priests hunted for Vatican "moles," led clandestine diplomacy, investigated assassinations of priests and other scandals threatening the Church, and conducted high-risk missions behind the Iron Curtain.

Detective Gabriel Allon returns in Daniel Silva's stunning thriller of ancient and modern betrayal, long-buried secrets and unthinkable deeds that takes the listener from Munich to Venice to the Vatican.

There is a nuclear weapon in the hands of the Vatican City’s deadliest enemy. And time is running out to stop an attack... Marco Venetti, the only man the Pope trusts, is on the hunt for a traitor. He is willing to do anything to protect the church, and the man at its heart. Even if it means getting blood on his hands... But when Marco finds him, the traitor reveals terrifying new information: the name of a Russian mafioso with a grudge against the Vatican and possession of a nuclear bomb. If Marco doesn’t work with him, the consequences will be deadly.

Some treasures should stay buried. Some secrets are worth killing for. And some knowledge can unleash a darkness beyond control. When Dr. Emma Jones, an esteemed archaeologist, is called to authenticate the Codex Sanguinis Immortalis, she expects a routine investigation. Instead, she finds herself caught in a dangerous web of intrigue as ancient secrets resurface and shadowy figures close in. The codex is rumored to hold the secret to immortality, but every step Emma takes pulls her further into a deadly conspiracy where nothing is as it seems, and no one can be trusted. From hidden Vatican...

A Pope Chosen by the Stars. A Church Led by Shadows. Before he became Pope Innocent XIV, he was a missionary in Peru… and a secret believer in horoscopes. One whispered prediction changed everything: that his rise to power was written in the stars. Now, deep within the Vatican, a new Pope rules — one guided not by scripture, but by an AI trained on forbidden astrological texts, ancient Enochian scrolls, and something darker. With every decision, he leans on a mysterious cardinal whose "readings" grow more powerful… and more apocalyptic. The Church calls it divine guidance. But behind ...

Can a Black journalist chasing the story of a lifetime afford to fall for the man who is Rome's biggest secret? Alessandro 'Sandro' Moretti is a name whispered with awe, a billionaire whose empire is as vast as his Vatican connections are deep. His desires are instantly fulfilled, until Kiana Morris, a fiery and intelligent Black American journalist, crashes into his world, threatening his legendary control. She arrived in Rome to conquer the Papal Conclave story, her ambition her armor after a painful past. There’s only one problem. Sandro, utterly captivated, decides Kiana must be his. ...

In Munich, writer Benjamin Stern enters his flat to find a man leafing through his research. When Stern confronts him, the man shoots him, murmurs a few words in Latin, gathers the papers and leaves. In Venice, art restorer and Israeli agent Gabriel Allon reads a message saying that Stern is dead; can he leave immediately? At the Vatican, a priest named Pietro paces in the garden, pondering the discoveries he has made, the enemies he will make, and the journey he must undertake. Silva weaves these three threads into a multilayered mystery.

Fatima, Portugal, 1917: The Virgin Mary appears to three peasant children, sharing with them three secrets, two of which are soon revealed to the world. The third secret is sealed away in the Vatican, read only by popes, and not disclosed until the year 2000. When revealed, its quizzical tone and anticlimactic nature leave many faithful wondering if the church has truly unveiled all of the Virgin Mary's words or if a message far more important has been left in the shadows.

When a church combusts in rural Appalachia, the bizarre trail of carnage suggests diabolical forces are at work. Charged with explaining the inexplicable, the FBI's Dr. Ailes and Agent Knoll once again turn to the ace up their sleeve: Agent Jessica Blackwood, a former prodigy from a family dynasty of illusionists. After playing a pivotal role in the capture of the Warlock, a seemingly supernatural serial killer, Jessica can no longer ignore the world - and the skills - she left behind.

Iron-fisted Pope Leo XIV emerges from open-heart surgery with the chilling realisation that his reforms have devastated the Church. As he struggles to overcome the policies he himself put in place, he must battle enemies from within the Vatican, as well as Islamic terrorists determined to assassinate him. Amid political intrigue and counterespionage, his brilliant Surgeon, Salviati, becomes a target, too, along with Salviati’s beautiful mistress, Tove, and her fragile daughter, as the plot builds to a dramatic climax.

In her long career as America's most beloved suspense writer, Mary Higgins Clark's The Lost Years is her most astonishing and dramatic work to date. At its center is a discovery that, if authenticated, may be the most revered document in human history - the holiest of the holy - and certainly the most coveted and valuable object in the world.

While analyzing parchment fragments from the Dead Sea Scrolls, grad student Susan Bauer pieces together text that indicates the existence of a stolen Secret Temple Scroll that was penned decades before the gospels. If discovered, this document could free the Jewish people from the centuries-long blemish that they are responsible for Yeshua’s death. From the basement of the Israeli Museum to a basilica in a picturesque French village to the ruins of Herculaneum, Yigael Dorian and archaeologists Valentina Vella and Erika Simone journey to uncover the truth behind this rumored scroll.

The enduring influence of the Catholic Church has many sources, but in the first half of the 19th century, the foundations upon which the church had rested were shaken. For many people, liberalism in the guise of liberty, equality, and fraternity was the quintessence of the evils that shook those foundations. At the Vatican Council of 1869-1870, the church made an effort to set things right by defining the doctrine of papal infallibility. Author John W. O'Malley draws us into the bitter controversies over papal infallibility that at one point seemed destined to rend the church in two.

In ancient Rome, a woman flees for her life. Hidden beneath her blue cloak are secrets men will kill for - forgeries that prove the newly self-appointed bishops are pretenders who will stop at nothing to shape this new religion to their own ends. Two thousand years later, classical archaeologists Valentina Vella and Erika Simone stumble across an ancient parchment buried deep in the Vatican archives. To reveal Julia's legacy will put them in the crosshairs of a venomous Vatican battle for power and supremacy; to stay silent would make them complicit in an ancient heresy.

The missing half of a scroll was recently discovered by Vatican archeologists and has been attributed to Luke the Apostle. The near two thousand year old scroll sheds light on the earth shattering circumstances regarding the birth of Jesus Christ. With corrupt elements within the Vatican vying with the mafia over control of the scroll an unlikely priest is left with the monumental task of bringing the highly controversial and dangerous truth to the light. "Using Biblical quotes and historical facts, Feliu weaves an intricate thriller that will sure to please Ancient Alien Theorists." - -...

September 1943: German forces occupy Rome. SS officer Paul Hauptmann rules with terror. The war's outcome is far from certain. An Irish priest, Hugh O'Flaherty, dedicates himself to helping those escaping from the Nazis. His home is Vatican City, the world's smallest state, a neutral, independent country within Rome where the occupiers hold no sway. Here Hugh brings together an unlikely band of friends to hide the vulnerable under the noses of the enemy. But Hauptmann's net begins closing in on the Escape Line and the need for a terrifyingly audacious mission grows critical.

In the days following the Pope's death, a cardinal is found brutally murdered in a chapel in Rome, his eyes gouged and his hands cut off. Called in for the grisly case, police inspector Paola Dicanti learns that another cardinal was recently found dead; he had also been tortured.