'Masterful' SUNDAY TIMES_________________Ancient Rome. 70 B.C. The height of the Republic.A city rippling with power - and with no shortage of men who'd do anything to wield it...
September 1938Hitler is determined to start a war.Chamberlain is desperate to preserve the peace.The issue is to be decided in a city that will forever afterwards be notorious for what takes place there.Munich. As Chamberlain’s plane judders over the Channel and the Fürher’s train steams relentlessly south from Berlin, two young men travel with secrets of their own.
FROM THE BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF FATHERLAND, CONCLAVEAND AN OFFICER AND A SPY. September 1938 Hitler is determined to start a war. Chamberlain is desperate to preserve the peace. The issue is to be decided in a city that will forever afterwards be notorious for what takes place there. Munich.
A sweltering week in late August. Where better to enjoy the last days of summer than on the beautiful Bay of Naples?
The Pope is dead. Behind the locked doors of the Sistine Chapel, one hundred and twenty Cardinals from all over the globe will cast their votes in the world’s most secretive election. They are holy men. But they have ambition. And they have rivals. Over the next seventy-two hours one of them will become the most powerful spiritual figure on earth.