The Messiah Matrix by Atchity Kenneth John

Author:Atchity, Kenneth John [Atchity, Kenneth John]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Imprimatur Britannia and Story Merchant Books
Published: 2012-05-01T05:00:00+00:00

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Lion’s Den

Hours earlier, a repentant Lucas Adashek stood before the burnt-out ruins of Bishop Giammo’s once-magnificent flat on Via Tritone. Firemen and metropolitan police were fingerprinting the interior of the bishop’s car.

Preempted by fate from confronting the man he’d sold his soul to, the shabby diplomat was desperate to pick up the trail of the woman he’d betrayed. When he overheard talk of a Vatican official arriving to retrieve something from the bishop’s study, Adashek thought nothing of pulling diplomatic rank—and the offer of Chesterfields—to get an exhausted inspector to admit that a set of important Vatican keys were found to be missing from the bishop’s desk.

“How do you know they’re missing?” he asked the inspector. The inspector laughingly told him that the Curia official nearly went berserk when the keys weren’t found with the cadaver either. “Or if they were, they were melted indistinguishably into the poor man’s bones.”

“What were the keys to?”

“Judging from the official’s reaction, they must have been the fuckin’ keys to the Pope’s private treasury.”

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