Mix together the Milites Christi, a reactionary new order within the Catholic Church; a secret "Holy Force" that stops at nothing to achieve its ends; a Catholic priest who is an ex-Green Beret and CIA hit man aching to atone for years of massacre and violence in Vietnam; the Trinity, a group of thr...
It's a fascinating study of power and politics. Spellman was not interested in theology -- at one time after the election of John XXIII, he is reported to have said, "I hire theologians" -- but he was enamored of authority and domination. At his peak he was in some ways more powerful than Pius XII, ...