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Describes Hitler's plot to kidnap, and perhaps kill, Pope Pius XII and loot the Vatican after Mussolini was ousted from power.

Harvard symbologist Robert Langdon is summoned to Switzerland when the dead body of a physicist turns up bearing the distinguishing mark of the ancient brotherhood of the "Illuminati." Soon, Langdon suspects this mysterious cult is determined to destroy Catholicism with an unimaginably powerful new weapon.

New York Times reporter Dennis Mulloy travels to Rome to cover the papal election, encountering a banking scandal, assassination plots, and his tempting and tempestous ex-wife along the way.

Based on newly opened Vatican archives, a Pulitzer Prize-winning Vatican scholar paints a new, dramatic portrait of what Pope Pius XII, one of the most controversial popes in Church history, did and did not do during WWII as the Nazis began their systematic mass murder of Europe's Jews.

"September 1943: German forces occupy Rome. Gestapo boss Obersturmbannf̈fuher Paul Hauptmann rules with terror. Hunger is widespread. Rumors fester. The war's outcome is far from certain. Diplomats, refugees, and escaped Allied prisoners flee for protection into Vatican City, at one fifth of a square mile the world's smallest state, a neutral, independent country within Rome. A small band of unlikely friends led by a courageous Irish priest is drawn...

Three exhilarating novellas - The Secret Dead, The Academy of Secrets, and A Christmas Requiem - follow the early adventures of young priest Giordano Bruno in the dramatic days of sixteenth century Italy. Even the dead have a story to tell ... Naples, 1566. During a sweltering summer, eighteen-year-old Giordano Bruno takes his final vows at San Domenico Maggiore and is admitted to the Dominican Order - despite doubts over his tendency to ask difficult...