Description
In this wickedly funny novel, Robert Ludlum combines the explosive pacing of The Bourne Identity and The Bourne Supremacy with a bitingly witty send-up of everything from government bureaucrats and pandering military men to the mob, the law, and organized religion.
War hero and infamous ladiesโ man General MacKenzie Hawkins is a living legend. His life story has even been sold to Hollywood. But now he stands accused of defacing a historic monument in Chinaโs Forbidden City. Under house arrest in Peking with a case against him pending in Washington, this looks like the end of Macโs illustrious career. But he has a plan of his own: kidnap the Pope.
Whatโs the ransom? Just one American dollarโfor every Catholic in the world. Add to the mix a slew of shady โinvestors,โ Macโs four persuasive, well-endowed ex-wives, and a young lawyer and fellow soldier who wants nothing more than to return to private life, and readers have in their hands one relentlessly irreverent page-turner.
Originally published under the pseudonym Michael Shepard.
โDonโt ever begin a [Robert] Ludlum novel if you have to go to work the next day.โ
--Chicago Sun-Times
โLudlum stuffs more surprises into his novels than any other six-pack of thriller writers combined.โ
--The New York Times ISBN:9781407229430