War hero and infamous ladies' man General MacKenzie Hawkins is a living
legend. His life story has even been sold to Hollywood. But now he
stands accused of defacing a historic monument in China's Forbidden
City. Under house arrest in Peking with a case against him pending in
Washington, this looks like the end of Mac's illustrious career. But he
has a plan of his own: kidnap the Pope. What's the ransom? Just one
American dollar--for every Catholic in the world. Add to the mix a
slew of shady "investors," Mac's four persuasive, well-endowed ex-wives,
and a young lawyer and fellow soldier who wants nothing more than to
return to private life, and readers have in their hands one relentlessly
irreverent page-turner.
Praise for Robert Ludlum
"Don't ever begin a [Robert] Ludlum novel if you have to go to work
the next day."--Chicago Sun-Times
"Ludlum stuffs more surprises into his novels than any other six-pack of
thriller writers combined."--The New York Times