City of Secrets: The Startling Truth Behind the Vatican Murders

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Year: 2003
Pages: 309
Binding Paperback
ISBN 60935138

Product Code: 756793106

Description

John Follain (au). On the night of May 4, 1998, in Vatican territory, the bodies of the commander of the Swiss Guard, his wife, & a lance corp. were found in the barracks entrusted with protecting the pope. It was the worst bloodbath to take place in more than a century at the Vatican. Four hours later, the Vatican announced that the lance corp. had shot the couple, then committed suicide in a “fit of madness” brought on by frustration with the unit’s discipline -- a conclusion it reaffirmed after a 9-month inquiry. Follain’s expose shows that this report was a travesty, a tissue of suppositions, contradictions, & omissions. This book reveals how the Vatican, the most secretive autocracy in the world, staged an elaborate plot to obstruct justice, & hide the scandals it dared not confess.

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