Author : Paul B. Henze
Publisher : Scribner Book Company
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 32,60 MB
Release : 1983
Category : Political Science
ISBN :
A former top government official presents evidence that the kremlin was the instigator and the Bulgarian Secret Service the "Supcontractor" in the attack on Pope John Paul II on May 13, 1981.
Author : Anthony F. D’Elia
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 28,58 MB
Release : 2009-11-15
Category : History
ISBN : 0674053729
In 1468, on the final night of Carnival in Rome, Pope Paul II sat enthroned above the boisterous crowd, when a scuffle caught his eye. His guards had intercepted a mysterious stranger trying urgently to convey a warning—conspirators were lying in wait to slay the pontiff. Twenty humanist intellectuals were quickly arrested, tortured on the rack, and imprisoned in separate cells in the damp dungeon of Castel Sant’Angelo. Anthony D’Elia offers a compelling, surprising story that reveals a Renaissance world that witnessed the rebirth of interest in the classics, a thriving homoerotic culture, the clash of Christian and pagan values, the contest between republicanism and a papal monarchy, and tensions separating Christian Europeans and Muslim Turks. Using newly discovered sources, he shows why the pope targeted the humanists, who were seen as dangerously pagan in their Epicurean morals and their Platonic beliefs about the soul and insurrectionist in their support of a more democratic Church. Their fascination with Sultan Mehmed II connected them to the Ottoman Turks, enemies of Christendom, and the love of the classical world tied them to recent rebellious attempts to replace papal rule with a republic harking back to the glorious days of Roman antiquity. From the cosmetic-wearing, parrot-loving pontiff to the Turkish sultan, savage in war but obsessed with Italian culture, D’Elia brings to life a Renaissance world full of pageantry, mayhem, and conspiracy and offers a fresh interpretation of humanism as a dynamic communal movement.
Author : Anonymous
Publisher :
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 12,7 MB
Release : 2016-06-02
Category :
ISBN : 9780993257735
The Red Mohawk returns in a new adventure featuring characters from the Bourbon Kid series. Someone is plotting to kill the Pope. Rodeo Rex knows the exact time the assassination will take place. But the location and the killer's identity are unclear. Elvis and the Bourbon Kid tag along in a race against time to save the Pope from certain death. The Plot to Kill the Pope is a crazy, fast paced adventure featuring The Red Mohawk, Frankenstein, Dr. Jekyll, Baby, Rodeo Rex, Elvis, Jack Munson, Jasmine, Mozart, the Bourbon Kid and the cast of Grease.....
Author : Mark Riebling
Publisher : Basic Books
Page : 385 pages
File Size : 37,44 MB
Release : 2015-09-29
Category : History
ISBN : 0465061559
The heart-pounding history of how Pope Pius XII -- often labeled "Hitler's Pope" -- was in fact an anti-Nazi spymaster, plotting against the Third Reich during World War II. The Vatican's silence in the face of Nazi atrocities remains one of the great controversies of our time. History has accused wartime pontiff Pius the Twelfth of complicity in the Holocaust and dubbed him "Hitler's Pope." But a key part of the story has remained untold. Pope Pius in fact ran the world's largest church, smallest state, and oldest spy service. Saintly but secretive, he sent birthday cards to Hitler -- while secretly plotting to kill him. He skimmed from church charities to pay covert couriers, and surreptitiously tape-recorded his meetings with top Nazis. Under his leadership the Vatican spy ring actively plotted against the Third Reich. Told with heart-pounding suspense and drawing on secret transcripts and unsealed files by an acclaimed author, Church of Spies throws open the Vatican's doors to reveal some of the most astonishing events in the history of the papacy. Riebling reveals here how the world's greatest moral institution met the greatest moral crisis in history.
Author : David Yallop
Publisher : Robinson
Page : 394 pages
File Size : 48,2 MB
Release : 2012-08-23
Category : True Crime
ISBN : 147210515X
Only thirty-three days after his election, Pope John Paul I,Albino Luciani, died in strange circumstances. Almost immediately rumours of a cover-up began to circulate around the Vatican. In his researches David Yallop uncovered an extraordinary story: behind the Pope's death lay a dark and complex web of corruption within the Church that involved the Freemasons, Opus Dei and the Mafia and the murder of the 'Pope's Banker' Roberto Calvi. When first published in 1984 In God's Name was denounced by the Vatican yet became an award-winning international bestseller. In this new edition, Yallop brings the story up to date and reveals new evidence that has been long buried concerning the truth behind the Vatican cover-up. This is a classic work of investigative writing whose revelations will continue to reverberate around the world.
Author : Paul Kengor
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 549 pages
File Size : 33,80 MB
Release : 2023-07-18
Category : History
ISBN : 1684516358
Even as historians credit Ronald Reagan and Pope John Paul II with hastening the end of the Cold War, they have failed to recognize the depth or significance of the bond that developed between the two leaders. Acclaimed scholar and bestselling author Paul Kengor changes that. In this fascinating book, he reveals a singular bond—which included a spiritual connection between the Catholic pope and the Protestant president—that drove the two men to confront what they knew to be the great evil of the twentieth century: Soviet communism. Reagan and John Paul II almost didn't have the opportunity to forge this relationship: just six weeks apart in the spring of 1981, they took bullets from would-be assassins. But their strikingly similar near-death experiences brought them close together—to Moscow's dismay.Based on Kengor's tireless archival digging and his unique access to Reagan insiders, A Pope and a President is full of revelations. It takes you inside private meetings between Reagan and John Paul II and into the Oval Office, the Vatican, the CIA, the Kremlin, and many points beyond. Nancy Reagan called John Paul II her husband's "closest friend"; Reagan himself told Polish visitors that the pope was his "best friend." When you read this book, you will understand why. As kindred spirits, Ronald Reagan and John Paul II united in pursuit of a supreme objective—and in doing so they changed history.
Author : Anonymous
Publisher :
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 18,86 MB
Release : 2015-05-08
Category :
ISBN : 9780993257704
The new book from the anonymous author of the international bestselling Bourbon Kid series. Everything seems peaceful in the small town of B Movie Hell until a mysterious serial killer in a skull mask topped with a red mohawk shows up and starts butchering the locals. Government agents Jack Munson and Milena Fonseca are sent to track down and eliminate the masked psychopath. But as they soon discover, the residents of B Movie Hell don't want their help. This is a town like no other, and the locals have many dark secrets.... Already a hit in France and Germany and with film rights optioned by Tobey Maguire's Material Pictures and Alexandra Milchan (exec producer - The Wolf of Wall Street), The Red Mohawk is a fun, outrageous and bloody thriller full of cinematic references and homages to many cult movies. An explosive cocktail of delirious humour and suspense - Stephane Loignon, Le Parisien magazine.
Author : Blake Snyder
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 23,80 MB
Release : 2005
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781615931712
This ultimate insider's guide reveals the secrets that none dare admit, told by a show biz veteran who's proven that you can sell your script if you can save the cat!
Author : Joseph R. G. DeMarco
Publisher : Lethe Press
Page : 398 pages
File Size : 38,13 MB
Release : 2009
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1590212134
When author Helmut Brandt is killed in an apparent mugging, P.I. Marco Fontana is hired by Brandt's partner, who suspects this was premeditated murder. Brandt's work on the death of Pope John Paul I angered people in and out of the Church and made him more than a few enemies. His death happens soon after Brandt claims to have incontrovertible new evidence implicating people never before suspected. Fontana doesn't believe in coincidences and takes the case. A former Catholic himself, he knows that uncovering Brandt's killer means more than exposing a thirty-year old plot to kill the Pope: it could also ruin the people named in the documents Brandt is supposed to have. Of course, if Brandt's enemies have killed once over this information, they won't hesitate to murder a P.I. who gets too close to the truth. Entering the arcane world of the Catholic Church, Fontana encounters forces determined to keep him from getting to the truth. Though he manages to gain access to the upper levels of the Archdiocesan hierarchy, Fontana realizes that the web of power and deceit is every bit as intricate, tangled, and deadly as he imagined. As the owner of StripGuyz, a troupe of male strippers, Fontana is no stranger to the seamier parts of the Philadelphia gayborhood. But in this case, he finds that there is an even murkier side to life in the city of Brotherly Love.
Author : Dan Brown
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 496 pages
File Size : 49,69 MB
Release : 2006-05-23
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 074349346X
The murder of a world-famous physicist raises fears that the Illuminati are operating again after centuries of silence, and religion professor Robert Langdon is called in to assist with the case.
