Roskov, Book 15 by Wolak Geoff

Author:Wolak, Geoff
Language: eng
Format: epub, azw3
Published: 2022-09-26T00:00:00+00:00

The turning point

Back at the hotel, we enjoyed tea and cake in our posh room as the TV chat show technicians added in subtitles and checked them, the programme due to air at 7pm and soon being widely plugged on local TV channels.

Sat with cups of tea, I began, ‘This could be a turning point.’

‘What is?’ Bonza puzzled.

I tapped the bottom of my sternum, my solar plexus. ‘I can feel it, something coming.’

‘The interview?’ Gloria puzzled.

‘No, I think …. it’s what I have planned for later.’

‘What the hell do you have planned for later?’ she worried.

I stood and glanced out of the window and forced a big breath. Facing them as they waited expectantly, I began, ‘Ever since the plane crash we’ve been nudged towards the Vatican, especially in Corsica with the artefacts, so … the question is … am I supposed to do more?

‘The Vatican is in turmoil over the various scandals, priests having sex with small boys and cardinals involved with financial scandals.

‘But I can shake hands with a man and know if he means me harm, know if he’s up to something, and I can often sense a bad person. So … what if I shake hands with a hundred top men in the Vatican and Armani gets rid of the bad ones?’

‘Be fewer small boys with sore arses,’ Bonza noted, Gloria shooting him a look.

She told me, ‘Nothing wrong with doing that, so what worries you?’

‘Some of the cardinals were wired into the Mafia and laundering money, and the Mafia might want to come after me if I cut off their money supply. And they might see me do some voodoo and report it.’

Bonza noted, ‘The local Italians all love you, and the fucking Mafia know that, they’d be afraid to move against you. And you can sense danger coming.’

‘Still a risk,’ Gloria noted. ‘And if you arrange for fifty priests to be fired it will get into the news, and then how do you explain the magic handshake?’

‘So we risk exposure,’ I noted, again glancing out the window. ‘But what’s the right thing to do?’ I faced them again. ‘The church controls and influences millions of people around the world, so … do I help them just because it’s the right thing to do?’

‘Yes,’ Gloria answered. ‘You help the people, the faithful, not the church; by helping the Vatican you’re helping the followers not the cardinals.’

‘Deal with them quietly,’ Bonza suggested. ‘The priests fucking small boys. Have them sent to Antarctica.’

‘That I can leave to Armani,’ I told them. ‘And yes … I’d have them dealt with quietly, despite what I said in that interview. So … do we rescue the Catholic Church, the great old enemy of ours during the Crusades?’

Gloria began, ‘They’re not the same, just that we need to root out the men involved with scandal. Problem is, there are thousands of priests; every town in the western world has one.’

I nodded at that. ‘But what we can do … is root out the bad bishops, and then maybe the good bishops will deal with the bad priests.

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