Little, Brown & Co. NY: Advance reading copy, mint, new/unread in a flawless pictorial wrappers, signed by the author. In Italy, the cardinal vicar of Rome is assassinated during a celebration of the pope's birthday. In Los Angeles, highly successful entertainment lawyer Harry Addison finds a desperate message on his telephone answering machine from his long-estranged brother, Daniel, a priest in the Vatican. Hours later a tour bus on which Father Daniel is traveling explodes on the road to Assisi. Arriving in Rome to investigate Danny's death and claim his body, Harry is plunged into a nightmare of deception and terror.