The Two Romes: A Blayney Parke Novel

Some truths are buried because someone killed to bury them.At Blayney Parke - an English estate that is part Jesuit charity, part safe house, part something with no name - the investigative journalist Hari Vandra has built a quiet life on a dangerous idea: that the calmest way to fight power is to document it.Then a letter arrives from Rome.What at first appears to be a doctrinal quarrel over the estate's hospice and its hidden temple proves to be the surface of something older and far more lethal - a dossier on a banker found hanging beneath a London bridge, on the money the powerful moved in the dark, and on the woman they murdered to keep it silent. The dossier was carried out of Rome by a man the world believes is dead. It is the secret at the root of Hari's own family.Now a cardinal who wants nothing and fears nothing has set a deadline to take it - and has found the one lever that will move a watcher: the man he loves.To save his family, Hari must drag the truth into the daylight, where it can belong to no one. But the secret that endangers them is the same one that has kept them alive.In the end, the truth is the deadliest weapon there is - and the only question left is who will dare to fire it.