The Devil's Crib

The Soviet Union is nearing collapse and Desert Storm has just ended. Enter the Devil's Crib -- a priceless marvel and Vatican possession. The first American Pope, Isaac I, while under fire from the Vatican's College of Cardinals, reveals his plan to use the Crib to fund the integration of Palestinian refugees into Israeli mainstream. Some cardinals applaud the idea. Others plot to overthrow Isaac. Israel praises the plan while the Palestinian Liberation Organization and their KGB advisor vow to never let it succeed. The PLO, aided by its spy inside Israel, daringly kidnap the pontiff while he is on tour of the Holy Land, even though he is guarded by Israel's Dignitary Protection Service and a Swiss Guard who was at one time an American Army Green Beret. As ransom, the PLO demand the release of jailed freedom fighters and the Crib. The penalty for not immediately acquiescing to their demand is the murder, somewhere in the world, of a Catholic bishop every day until the PLO has the Crib. To find the pope and put a stop to this madness, Swiss Guard Sergeant Jeremias Uhlmann and Israel's Mossad agent, Endre Yarkas, throw out all the rules. No conjecture or theory is ignored. Leads are followed and people interrogated. Some talk. Some die. In the end the pope is located, but is a rescue raid even feasible? Is it possibly already too late?

With tensions in the Middle East again ratcheting up, this high-octane, high-energy tale of merciless deceit, incredible courage, inconceivable savagery and raw passions with devilish twists and turns is not to be missed. The Devil's Crib is an adult thriller, which means that if it were a movie, the action would be R-rated and, while moving plot or characters forward, its passion and sex would be X-rated.