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The Vatican Rip

ebook / ISBN-13: 9781472102904

Price: £9.99

ON SALE: 7th November 2013

Genre: Fiction & Related Items / Crime & Mystery

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I always think that a genuine friend is like a genuine antique – you’d go a long way to find one and you’d do anything to stop one getting broken. When an Italian gentleman made me an offer I couldn’t refuse, stopping my friends from getting broken meant stealing a very valuable antique.
‘Somebody else has got my antique and I want it back,’ was how he put it.
‘Who has it?’ I asked.
Without a flicker of a smile he replied, ‘The Pope.’
If you think of the Vatican as a big church where the Pope lives, then think again. It is a complete walled city with its own shops, its own bank and its own armed security in the shape of the ridiculously costumed Swiss Guards. Look a bit daft, don’t they? But they’re well trained and well armed young men. Well, if stealing antiques from the Pope was easy, everybody would be doing it, wouldn’t they?

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Highly ingenious, vastly enjoyable, and stuffed with a magpie's selection of antique information.
Times Literary Supplement