The Hawk is a living military legend. Now, cashiered out of the army for conduct unbecoming to an officer, his civilian career is about to blossom. His new business is the “acquisition of religious artifacts” and the projected gross is $400 million – one dollar for every Catholic in the world. 

          What could be worth more than a King’s ransom? Only a Pope’s ransom – in the person of the beloved pontiff Pope Francesco I. Trust the Hawk to engineer the most outrageous criminal caper of all time! And trust Robert Ludlum to conjure a truly irreverent, irrepressible and irresistible entertainment!