{"product_id":"the-vatican-chronicles-a-roman-a-clef-paperback-1","title":"The Vatican Chronicles: A Roman À Clef - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eJoseph W. Harned\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Vatican Chronicles \u003c\/i\u003eis a tongue-in-cheek novel about the most dangerous act of nuclear terrorism in the twenty-first century, a romp of international intrigue and espionage by a man who spent thirty-three years in the field. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e The explosive story begins in Washington and focuses on the most recent shipment of plutonium by Japan from Cherbourg to Nagasaki--a shipment that could produce three hundred Nagasaki-size bombs. A bizarre attack on His Holiness at the Vatican's summer palace and the murder of a well-known cardinal in the Vatican hospital lead a much-loved and popular pope and an unloved and unpopular intelligence agency to form an unlikely joint venture to save a key priest at an obscure monastery near Kyoto. As readers, we are treated to a Japan no Westerner is permitted to see, and made privy to a Vatican initiative so daring it may not be revealed. The harrowing escapade of nuclear terrorists will succeed unless a handful of Americans and Japanese, aided by the Vatican, can discover who is behind the threat and stop them. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Wikipedia defines \u003ci\u003eroman à clef \u003c\/i\u003e(French for novel with a key) as \"a novel about real life events that is overlaid with a façade of fiction. The fictitious names in the novel represent real people. The reasons an author might choose roman \u003ci\u003eà \u003c\/i\u003eclef format include writing about a controversial subject and\/or reporting inside information (and) the opportunity to turn the tale the way the author would like it to have gone.\"\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eFollowing service on COMSIXTHFLT STAFF in the Mediterranean, JOSEPH W. HARNED worked for Henry Cabot Lodge at the Atlantic Institute for International Affairs in Paris, and subsequently for Dean Acheson and Christian Herter at the Atlantic Council of the United States in Washington.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 224\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.8 x 8.9 x 6 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eIllustrated:\u003c\/strong\u003e Yes\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e March 25, 2021\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47267048489209,"sku":"9780875657745","price":24.79,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0789\/2782\/3097\/files\/RQGVr5cnxy9780875657745_c1e421cc-53fc-473b-8fcc-bde5a80a6759.webp?v=1768857968","url":"https:\/\/bookscloud.io\/products\/the-vatican-chronicles-a-roman-a-clef-paperback-1","provider":"BooksCloud Book Dropshipping","version":"1.0","type":"link"}