When the Vice President drops a championship trophy on live television, it appears to be an embarrassing accident. It's actually the first move in a conspiracy that will reshape the world.
James David Vandenberg has spent his political career believing he understands how power really works in Washington. But when shadowy handlers task him with assassinating the Pope during an Easter audience at the Vatican, he discovers he's been playing a game whose rules he never knew existed.
What begins as a desperate flight across Europe pursued by Vatican assassins, foreign intelligence operatives, and killers who seem to know his every move becomes a revelation that democratic governments worldwide are being quietly replaced by something far more sinister. From the marble corridors of the Vatican to the blood-soaked beaches of northern France, Vandenberg must survive long enough to understand the true scope of what he's helped unleash.
The Pope is dead. International alliances are crumbling. And somewhere in rooms that don't officially exist, patient architects of a new world order are putting the final pieces of their plan into place.
The Sacred Deception is a modern espionage fiction story that asks the most dangerous question of our time: What if the people trying to save the world are the ones we should fear most?
"A conspiracy so vast and terrifying it could only be true."