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Vatican Connection : The True Story of a Billion-Dollar Conspiracy Between the Catholic Church and the Mafia by Richard Hammer (2018, Trade Paperback)
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Product Identifiers
PublisherOpen Road Integrated Media, Inc.
ISBN-101504049381
ISBN-139781504049382
eBay Product ID (ePID)240084950
Product Key Features
Book TitleVatican Connection : The True Story of a Billion-Dollar Conspiracy Between the Catholic Church and the Mafia
Number of Pages380 Pages
LanguageEnglish
Publication Year2018
TopicChristianity / Catholic, Organized Crime, Criminals & Outlaws
GenreReligion, True Crime, Biography & Autobiography
AuthorRichard Hammer
FormatTrade Paperback
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Item Length8 in
Item Width5.2 in
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Reviews"Explosive . . . All the ingredients of a thriller." -- San Francisco Chronicle "For people who enjoy reading about good gumshoes doing good work, with the added twist that at the end of the trail sit men in red hats and long robes abusing the power of their religious authority." -- Chicago Sun-Times "Hammer . . . fashions a smooth narrative around nefarious activities involving prominent political and religious figures." -- The New York Times
SynopsisWinner of the Edgar Award: The riveting account of an audacious fraud scheme that stretched from a Mafia hangout on the Lower East Side to the Vatican. With a round, open face and a penchant for tall tales, Matteo de Lorenzo resembled everyone's kindly uncle. But Uncle Marty, as he was known throughout the Genovese crime family, was one of the New York mob's top earners throughout the 1960s and '70s, the mastermind of a billion-dollar trade in stolen and counterfeit securities. In the spring of 1972, de Lorenzo and his shrewd and ruthless business partner, Vincent Rizzo, traveled to Europe to discuss a plan to launder millions of dollars worth of phony securities. Shockingly, the plot involved Archbishop Paul Marcinkus, the scandal-plagued president of the Vatican Bank. Unbeknownst to de Lorenzo and Rizzo, however, the NYPD was already on the case--thanks to the crusading work of Det. Joseph Coffey. Coffey, the legendary New York policeman who investigated the Lufthansa heist and took the Son of Sam's confession, first learned of the scheme in a wiretap related to the attempted mob takeover of the Playboy Club in Manhattan. From those unlikely beginnings, Detective Coffey worked tirelessly to trace the fraudulent stocks and bonds around the world and deep into the corridors of power in Washington, DC, and Rome. Meticulously researched and relentlessly gripping, The Vatican Connection is a true story of corruption and deceit, packed with "all the ingredients of a thriller" ( San Francisco Chronicle ).
