Vatican Alloy (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9798277379509)

The most valuable gold in history is a lie. The price of the truth is everything.

Disgraced historian Dr. Harrison Blake believes the Church's foundation rests on a massive, five-hundred-year-old financial fraud. He only needs one piece of evidence-a cryptic cipher hidden in an ancient Vatican codex-to prove it.

But when Blake steals the cipher, he ignites a global hunt that spans the deepest crypts of Rome and the secretive, fortified palaces of Renaissance Italy.

The Chase is On:

• The Historian: Dr. Harrison Blake, an arrogant scholar who sees history as a puzzle to be solved, not protected.

• The Archiver: Dr. Serafina Bellini, a rigid Vatican curator forced to become Blake's reluctant partner as they descend into the dangerous heart of her own archives.

• The Wolf: Katerina Volkov, a ruthless paramilitary operative who wants the ultimate prize-the counterfeit gold reserve-for herself.

The Keys to the Kingdom are Buried:

The cipher is the first of three keys leading to the legendary True Donation of Constantine. Following a trail of alchemical secrets, astronomical maps, and analog security traps, the team must race through the shadows of the Castel Sant'Angelo and the subterranean vaults of Urbino.

They must find the final vault before Volkov can breach it with explosives, risking the destruction of the evidence and centuries of history.

But the ultimate deception is yet to be revealed. Blake will discover that the truth is not carved in stone or written on paper, but revealed by fire and a chemical dye that exposes the greatest secret of all: that the price of the Church's power is paid in lead.

THE VATICAN ALLOY is a high-stakes, relentless historical conspiracy thriller perfect for fans of Dan Brown, David Baldacci, and Steve Berry.

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