THE FIFTH GOSPEL PB – IAN CALDWELL

Ian Caldwell returns with a new intellectual thriller that confirms his place among the most ambitious popular storytellers working today, as alost gospel, a relic, and a dying pope s final wish send two brothers – both Vatican priests – on a quest to untangle Christianity s biggest mystery. 2004. As Pope John Paul II s reign enters its twilight, a mysterious exhibit is under construction at the Vatican Museums. A week before it is scheduled to open, its curator is murdered. The same night, a violent break-in rocks the home of the curator s research partner, Father Alex Andreou, a Greek Catholic priest who lives inside the Vatican with his five-year-old son. When the papal police fail to identify a suspect in either crime, Father Alex, desperate to keep his family safe, undertakes his own investigation. To find the killer he must reconstruct the dead curator s secret. But just as he begins to understand the truth about his friend s death, and its consequences for the future of the world s two largest Christian Churches, Father Alex finds himself hunted down …