The Pope is dying. A civil war of the cloth erupts: a secret group start a bloody campaign to ensure their cardinal takes his seat in the Vatican. They call themselves the Remnant, and they will take no prisoners as they begin their attacks on any liberal clerics who might thwart their plans to start a new Crusade against Islam.Enter Irish-born Father Michael Flaherty, a former U.S. Marine, currently based in upstate New York. Alerted by a close friend - a New York City police detective - that the deaths of radical priests in Manhattan have been linked to a man who has fled to Rome, Flaherty goes on the hunt, a task made all the more deadly because both sides wear the same uniform.In the shadow of the Pope's final days, a showdown looms beneath the Vatican in this richly layered thriller by a new master of the form. Read Less