1636: The Vatican Sanction Audiobook (Free)

Reserve #24 in the multiple NY Times best-selling Ring of Fireplace series. A WEEK IN MAY, 1636 It’s springtime in Burgundy. The bouquets are out and so are the cardinals-of Pope Urban’s renegade papacy, right now away from home from your Vatican’s would-be usurper Borja. Most of the Church’s mature leaders have converged upon the town of Besancon, where in fact the Pope plans to offer an ecumenical olive branch to the other Christian denominations with which Rome has been at war. Fortunately, Urban has up-time help..LEARNING MUCH MORE on the subject of 1636: The Vatican Sanction He may rely upon Cardinal-Protector Larry Mazzare’s theological savvy, Sharon Nichols’ medical skills, and her spouse Ruy Sanchez’s keen-eyed experience as a body-guard-in-chief. And even though Urban has a brand-new Papal Guard in the form of Owen Rowe O’Neill’s Crazy Geese, Mike Stearns offers loaned the Pope a small contingent from the Hibernian Battalion-just in the event. Which is prudent, since Urban and his peace initiative are not merely in danger from Borja’s assassins. There is certainly another, more fatal, group of professional killers around, directed by the man who almost killed the Pope before: lethal Spanish mastermind Pedro Dolor. Dolor hasn’t come to confess murder-he’s arrive to commit it.