Book description
A global thriller with a plot straight out of international
headlines…from a newspaper man with history and politics in his veins.
Nick Bailey considers himself a hardboiled reporter for London's
hungriest tabloid. But even Bailey is left reaching for answers when he
gets a midnight assignment to investigate a body hanging from the
infamous Blackfriars Bridge. Someone, it seems, is killing priests. It's
the latest twist in a deadly conspiracy, one centuries in the making,
that will reach all the way to the South Lawn of the White House. In
this tale of intrigue and bitter religious rivalry, seasoned journalist
and newspaperman Ray O'Hanlon sets a conflict that has simmered for four
hundred years on a collision course with an American President and a
British Prime Minister. Both are battling a present day crisis that
threatens global peace. Both are confronting an uncertain future. But
it's what is coming at them from the distant past that poses the
greatest danger, a threat to their very lives. Ray O'Hanlon is editor
of The Irish Echo, the USA's most widely read Irish American newspaper,
based in New York. Over the course of a distinguished newspaper career
spanning more than thirty years, he has reported from three continents
and has appeared on “CBS' 60 Minutes,” “BBC World News,” “ABC World News
Tonight” and “PBS NewsHour with Jim Lehrer.” In addition to his work as
a reporter and editor, O'Hanlon is a frequent contributor to media
reporting on Ireland, Irish American affairs and Anglo-Irish relations.
His book, The New Irish Americans (Roberts Rinehart, 1998), was the
recipient of a Washington Irving Book Award. A native of Dublin and a
keen reader of American, Irish and British history, O'Hanlon lives with
his wife Lisa and their three children in Ossining, New York.
