The Road to Gandolfo: a Novel

War hero and infamous ladies? man General MacKenzie Hawkins is a living legend. His life story has even been sold to Hollywood. But now he stands accused of defacing a historic monument in China?s Forbidden City. Under house arrest in Peking with a case against him pending in Washington, this looks like the end of Mac?s illustrious career. But he has a plan of his own: kidnap the Pope. What?s the ransom? Just one American dollar?for every Catholic in the world. Add to the mix a slew of shady ?investors,? Mac?s four persuasive, well-endowed ex-wives, and a young lawyer and fellow soldier who wants nothing more than to return to private life, and readers have in their hands one relentlessly irreverent page-turner.
 
Praise for Robert Ludlum
 
?Don?t ever begin a [Robert] Ludlum novel if you have to go to work the next day.??Chicago Sun-Times

?Ludlum stuffs more surprises into his novels than any other six-pack of thriller writers combined.??The New York Times