General MacKenzie Hawkins is a living military legend, a hero and a rogue.

Sam Devereaux is a bright young ex-Harvard lawyer, now in the army, and he can't wait to get out.

When the Hawk gets kicked out of the army for conduct unbecoming to an officer, his options are limited - but not for long. He has a plan, a plan so ambitious it will shock the world and make him a very rich man.

He is going to get $400 million - a dollar from every Catholic in the world. And he's going to do it by kidnapping the Pope . . .

Robert Ludlum was the author of twenty-one novels, each a New York Times bestseller. There are more than 210 million of his books in print, and they have been translated into thirty-two languages. In addition to the Jason Bourne series—The Bourne Identity, The Bourne Supremacy, and The Bourne Ultimatum—he was the author of The Scarlatti Inheritance, The Chancellor Manuscript, and The Apocalypse Watch, among many others. Mr. Ludlum passed away in March, 2001.