The Judas Protocol

A Nick Holt Vatican Thriller

von Harlan Rhodes

240 Seiten, Taschenbuch

Kurzbeschreibung des Verlags

A dead man has kept an appointment for thirty-three years. This spring, it falls due.Nick Holt climbs a mountain to hear a dying cardinal's last confession - three secrets carried as one story for thirty-five years. But before the old man can finish, a telephone forbidden by the monastery rings anyway.A Swiss vault has received an inspection request on the series' most dangerous object: a sealed packet carried out of Ethiopia in 1937, never opened in ninety years. The request was filed under a standing instruction from 1994 - an instruction that described the packet, to the stitch, three decades before it arrived.The signature is two initials. D.F.The man who wrote them has been dead since 1993.As the appointment's clock runs down, Holt uncovers the Church's most buried arrangement: a hidden office with no name, a ledger kept by ghosts, a bishop reaching for a power he was built never to hold - and, beneath it all, a keeping older than the Church itself. Because the mountain guards the question of God. And somewhere, since the worst morning in history, someone has been guarding the price of selling him.Now every account of six books comes due in one vault, one room, one hour: the family that kept a sealed lot for three generations without knowing why. The committee chairman with thirty years of silence under his seal. The archivist counting ghosts inside the Vatican's walls. And an eighty-year-old clerk who must rise from his own grave - punctually - to keep the last appointment of his life.Some questions keep the faith alive. This one has been keeping something else.From an Apennine monastery to a Geneva vault to the iron rail at Axum, THE JUDAS PROTOCOL is the monumental conclusion to the Nick Holt series - a conspiracy thriller of faith, ledgers, and the world's longest-kept secret, for readers of Dan Brown, Steve Berry, and Daniel Silva. Reads as a standalone; lands hardest as the finale.

• Reihe: The Judas Protocol
• ISBN: 9798193523918
• Sprache: Englisch
• Erscheinungsdatum: 08.09.2026
• Größe: 229 x 152 mm
• Verlag: Independently published