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—<i>for every Catholic in the world</i>. 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.<br> <br> <b>Praise for Robert Ludlum</b><br> <b> </b><br> “Don’t ever begin a [Robert] Ludlum novel if you have to go to work the next day.”<b>—<i>Chicago Sun-Times</i></b><br> <i> </i><br> “Ludlum stuffs more surprises into his novels than any other six-pack of thriller writers combined.”<b>—<i>The New York Times</i></b>