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After the shocking abdication and disappearance of Pope John Paul III, close confidants of the Pope are being murdered. Peter Adam, a German journalist, and his American colleague, Loretta, begin to investigate the case. Their only lead is a book about mystical symbols predicting an unsettling event which is to take place in ten days time.

Wine and murder - nothing is more likely to rouse Auntie Poldi's love of the chase. Still relishing the notoriety from her spectacular resolution of the Candela case, Poldi is alive to the faintest whiff of criminality. What to others might seem a series of misfortunes - the water supply cut off, a poisoned dog - is clearly, to Poldi, an escalation: the Mafia have had her in their sights ever since she solved Valentino's murder. Poldi has tasted blood. No-one is above suspicion. And trouble will surely follow....

Peter is interrogated by the Italian Police and tortured by secret service agents. Without any recollection of what happened during the previous few hours...

Eine lebenspralle und farbenfrohe deutsch-italienische Familiengeschichte. Barnaba Carbonaro wird 1880 in Sizilien in ärmsten Verhältnissen geboren. Er verliert seinen Vater früh und muss bereits mit fünf Jahren in den Orangengärten von Taormina schuften. Schon früh wächst in Barnaba der Wunsch heran, eines Tages ein reicher und einflussreicher Mann zu werden und seinen großen Traum zu verwirklichen - seine Waren als einer der Ersten über den Brenner zu transportieren und München mit Zitrusfrüchten zu beliefern.

New York City. A Chinese woman was brutally murdered and Jeremiah Cotton, a young cop with the NYPD, just can't let go. He suspects that the woman is the victim of a serial killer, but no one believes him and he is taken off the case. While carrying out an unauthorized investigation, Cotton encounters a division of the FBI whose existence no one knows about: the "G-Team". Stubborn and persistent, Cotton asks uncomfortable questions about the mysterious unit - and runs afoul of Special Agent Philippa "Phil" Decker in the process.

Cotton Reloaded - Folge 1: Eine neue Zeit. Eine neue Mission. Ein neuer Held: Der brutale Mord an einer Chinesin lässt Jeremiah Cotton, einem jungen Cop beim New York City Police Department, keine Ruhe. Er vermutet, dass die Frau das Opfer eines Serienkillers geworden ist. Doch keiner glaubt ihm; er wird von dem Fall abgezogen. Als Cotton eigenmächtig Nachforschungen anstellt, stößt er auf eine Abteilung des FBI, von deren Existenz niemand weiß: das "G-Team". Stur und hartnäckig stellt Cotton unbequeme Fragen über die mysteriöse Einheit - und bringt Special Agent Philippa "Phil" Decker gegen sich auf. Als er nur knapp einem Mordanschlag entgeht, versteht Cotton, dass dies kein gewöhnlicher Mordfall ist und er nicht bloß einen Serienkiller jagt. Denn das G-Team scheint in den Fall verstrickt zu sein...

Peter Adam wakes up on an oil rig to discover he has survived a mortal injury, and learns that the Vatican's chief exorcist, Don Luigi, has been elected pope. The news is worrying, not least because it appears Pope Peter II is doing everything possible to fulfil the prophecy of Malachi. Following a migraine attack, Peter wakes up to find himself in Cologne Cathedral after a gap in his life of five days of which he has no memory. Suddenly, all hell breaks loose around him.

Aided by Don Luigi and the Saudi Arabian ambassador, Peter and Maria arrive at Clairvaux where they search for the full text of the prophecy...

Strange dealings are afoot in the Apostolic Palace - a nun leapt to her death shortly after participating in a seemingly routine exorcism. But when a priest clad in Gammarelli and a Vatican Commissario with an almost unholy level of sex appeal turn up at her door, Poldi is shocked to hear that she's a suspect in their case. Who is the woman being exorcised, and where has she disappeared to? And why in the world does she claim, in perfect Bavarian, to be Poldi, Isolde Oberreiter, of Torre Achirafari?

All the beloved, irascible Auntie Poldi wanted from her Sicilian retirement was time to enjoy sunshine, a free-flowing supply of wine and a sultry romance with Chief Inspector Montana. But then her idyll is rudely disrupted by the last person she wants to see on her doorstep - John Owenya, detective inspector with the Tanzanian Ministry of Home Affairs, who is also her estranged, lying cheat of a husband.

One year ago: While working on a magazine article about excavations in the Karakorum desert, Peter and his girlfriend Ellen meet Edward Kelly...

A 12th century letter confirms Peter and Mary's suspicion that the Templars were in possession of a terrible secret that is now threatening the Church...

Urs Bühler makes a horrible discovery on the forbidden plague island in the lagoon of Venice. On the so-called "Island of the Light"...

While the man called Nikolas continues his violent murder spree, Maria comes to Peter's rescue in Sicily. New clues found by Don Luigi require Peter...

Cardinal Menendez wants to be Pope, at any prize. A man by the name of Aleister Crowley makes him a tempting offer. Peter has an eye-opening...

In the Himalayas a young Buddhist monk makes a horrific discovery. Peter, trapped in the body of his brother, realises his tattoo is the key to deciphering the Book of Dzyan, a catalogue of evil. Simultaneously, a young Jesuit hacker in the Vatican discovers a conspiracy and Yoko Tanaka manages to decipher parts of Peter's tattoo.

Der Journalist Peter Adam erwacht im Kölner Dom - ohne Erinnerung daran, was in den letzten Tagen geschehen ist. Ringsum hebt sich der Boden, die Hölle tut sich auf, Menschen stehen in Flammen. Hat die Zeit der Apokalypse begonnen? Selbst der Papst im fernen Rom, der sich Petrus II. nennt, scheint von einem Dämon besessen zu sein und tut nichts, um das drohende Verhängnis abzuwenden. Die letzte Hoffnung der Welt liegt in der rätselhaften Tätowierung, die Peter Adams gesamten Körper bedeckt. Uralte Zeichen, die den Weg zu einem der größten Mysterien der Menschheitsgeschichte weisen. Dem Ursprung des Bösen.

Es ist so weit: Die Poldi heiratet Montana. So jedenfalls der Plan. Die Hochzeitsvorbereitungen laufen auf vollen Touren, bei manchen liegen die Nerven bereits blank. Aber - man kennt das - Sizilien ist kompliziert, immer kommt was dazwischen. Ein unbeliebter Unternehmer verschwindet. Fiel er etwa in die Hände der Mafia? Und auf der Isola Bella vor Taormina wird die Leiche einer jungen Frau angespült. Die schöne Slowakin ist an einer Überdosis Ketamin gestorben. War es Selbstmord? Ein Unfall?

While the College of Cardinals, isolated from the outside works, casts it first ballot, Maria frees Peter from a terrible imprisonment. Franz Laurenz...

On the eve of the conclave, Peter learns some shocking truths from former Pope Franz Laurenz about an ancient evil working towards the destruction...