To Kill the Pope (45 page)

T.S.

Washington, D.C.

January 2000

B
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Szulc, Tad

To kill the pope: an ecclesiastic thriller/Tad Szulc

p.   cm.

“A Lisa Drew Book”

1. Attempted assassination—Fiction. 2. Rome (Italy)—Fiction.

3. Jesuits—Fiction. 4. Popes—Fiction. I. Title.

PS3569.Z8 T6 2000

813'.54—dc21 00-028466

ISBN 978-1-4767-7477-0

ISBN-13: 978-1-5011-0778-8 (eBook)