Vatican Fiction

While analyzing parchment fragments from the Dead Sea Scrolls, grad student Susan Bauer pieces together text that indicates the existence of a stolen Secret Temple Scroll that was penned decades before the gospels. If discovered, this document could free the Jewish people from the centuries-long blemish that they are responsible for Yeshua’s death. From the basement of the Israeli Museum to a basilica in a picturesque French village to the ruins of Herculaneum, Yigael Dorian and archaeologists Valentina Vella and Erika Simone journey to uncover the truth behind this rumored scroll.

The call comes at dawn. Three words. Come to Pompeii. Marcus Russo has spent his career excavating the past. He has never been afraid of what he might find—until now. The chamber shouldn't exist. Neither should what's painted on its walls. The seven-petaled rose. The geometric cross. The unmistakable iconography of Rosicrucian tradition, preserved beneath two millennia of volcanic ash—etched into Roman plaster nearly fifteen centuries before the brotherhood claims to have been born. The discovery doesn't just rewrite history. It destroys a myth that powerful men have killed to protect.

In "Vatican Files," Alicia Yoder's journey takes an unexpected turn when she makes a solemn vow to help find a missing priest—a relative of a dear friend—only to discover that he vanished within the sacred walls of Vatican City itself. As Alicia embarks on a quest to retrace the footsteps of the enigmatic clergyman, she stumbles upon a centuries-old conspiracy, a sinister plot that threatens to unravel the very foundations of the modern world.

FOLLOWING HIS 2017 DEBUT IN 'THE RAIDERS', JED MASON RETURNS IN AN EPIC ACTION-THRILLER QUEST! The Knights Templar. An Ancient Relic. An Epic Quest. Ex-soldier and MI6 operative Jed Mason is on his final mission and looking forward to a new life when he is involved in a car crash with an American scholar in the Lazio countryside. Offering to drive her into Rome, Mason soon learns she is connected to an important Vatican announcement due later that evening, one that will shock the world forever. But minutes into the event, sinister masked terrorists storm the Sistine Chapel and take everyone...

If You Enjoyed The Da Vinci Code... You'll Love The Da Vinci Paradox A time-travel thriller inspired by the mystery, hidden history, and historical intrigue that made The Da Vinci Code unforgettable—but with a mind-bending time travel twist. A missing child. Two mothers. One Renaissance genius hiding the greatest secret in history. One mother will do anything to protect her son. The other is willing to cross centuries to find him. Because the boy living under Leonardo da Vinci's protection... ...will one day become Nostradamus. What if Leonardo da Vinci didn't just paint the future... ...

A gripping spiritual thriller for readers of Dan Brown, Glenn Cooper, and José Rodrigues dos Santos. If you enjoy stories that blend ancient secrets, human emotion, and bold questions about faith and history, this novel is for you. In a forgotten wing of the Vatican, young altar server Lucas is assigned to care for a mysterious old priest named Simon—a man the Church has hidden from view for decades. What begins as a routine task becomes a life-altering journey when Simon starts to share a story long erased from official history. A story about Jesus not as a distant divinity, but as a ...

For fans of Philippa Gregory and Alison Weir, bestselling author C. W. Gortner effortlessly weaves history and drama in this captivating novel about one of the world’s most notorious families. Glamorous and predatory, the Borgias fascinated and terrorized fifteenth-century Renaissance Italy...

A mysterious letter written by Albert Einstein draws a physicist and a theologian into the Vatican. What they uncover reaches back to Hiroshima—and has implications far beyond science. First Light is an intelligent historical thriller that blends science, faith, and hidden history in a story of discovery and consequence. As long-buried knowledge begins to resurface, and science confronts truths it cannot unlearn, a chain of events unfolds across decades—from wartime catastrophe to a modern-day auction house, and into the heart of the Vatican. Blending real historical figures with ...

For over five hundred years, the Voynich Manuscript has remained one of the greatest unsolved mysteries of the literary world. Its strange botanical drawings, arcane symbols, and cryptic language have defied the best minds of every generation. But when long-lost fragments emerge from the shadows, they point to a secret codex that could unlock not only the manuscript’s meaning but a dangerous truth long buried by history. Drawn into the chase is Father Michael Dominic, a brilliant Vatican archivist who has dedicated his life to preserving the Church’s most sensitive records.

Rated at 94% on Goodreads. Filled with action, intrigue, and edge-of-your-seat suspense, The Vatican's Deadly Secret (James Dieter Book 2) picks up where The Vatican's Last Secret (James Dieter Book 1) left off. What 75-year-old secret links a prospective US President to $350 million dollars in Nazi gold bars and Vatican Bank accounts that contain vast sums of money stolen during World War II? In this fast-paced action-packed thriller, James Dieter (retired Navy SEAL), his wife Nora (investigative journalist), and his best friend, Dan Flaherty (ex-IRA) battle their way across Europe as they...

When investigative journalist Hana Sinclair uncovers a cryptic reference to an ancient botanical manuscript left to by her late grandfather, she unravels a thread tied to Hildegard von Bingen, a 12th-century abbess, healer, and mystic. Her findings reveal that Hildegard’s work holds more than historical value—it may conceal the key to curing some of humanity’s most devastating diseases. But someone is determined to ensure her secrets stay buried.

Now updated with a new preface by Michael Pollan and an exclusive bonus chapter. This audiobook also includes a foreword written and read by Graham Hancock, the New York Times bestselling author of America Before: The Key to Earth's Lost Civilization. THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER As seen on The...

This book comes with a WARNING: once you start reading you will not be able to put it down! ***** "Brown, Patterson, Clancy, and now Smith!" Amazon Reviewer In this gripping thriller, Hans Dieter is a well-known philanthropist with a dark past. From his deathbed, he has one last story to relay to his son, Jim Dieter (retired Navy SEAL) and his best friend, Dan Flaherty (ex-IRA). During the final days of WWII, senior Nazi party and Vatican officials orchestrated one of history’s most daring thefts—a crime Hans Dieter was central to. For over 70 years, the Vatican has gone to deadly ...

The ultimate ultimate game of cat and mouse! During the opening months of World War II, the Vatican initiated a covert operation to steal the eighth wonder of the world. Their treachery succeeded beyond their wildest expectations -- or so they thought. Now their 80-year-old secret is in danger of unraveling and some very powerful people and ruthless people will do anything to keep their secret buried. In this fast-paced thriller, Hezbollah, Mossad, The Vatican, and MI-6 are all hunting for James Dieter (retired Navy SEAL), and his wife, Nora (investigative journalist), as they race across ...

Benjamin Luna never expected to inherit anything. Least of all, a nine-hundred-year-old secret that men have killed for nine centuries to keep. Behind a fortune built on blood lies a truth that could shake the foundations of faith, history, and power itself. The men hunting him have kept that silence since the Crusades. To survive, he’ll have to finish what his family spent nine centuries hiding. A gripping historical thriller of mystery, betrayal, and relentless suspense. What would you do if you inherited one of history’s greatest secrets?

‘This 5-star thriller is a non-stop action-packed adventure… Reads like the latest blockbuster film… I was left breathless, my heart pounding as I turned the last page’ NetGalley review, ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ You’ve cracked the Da Vinci code, now uncover the Vatican secret… The deepest...

In 1982, Italian financier Roberto Calvi, known as “God’s Banker”, was discovered hanging under London’s Blackfriars Bridge. What wasn’t found was the briefcase he was known to have had with him the night before, reportedly stuffed with incriminating documents, a special key, and a computer disk filled with codes, which together unlock a piece of the Vatican’s troubled past. When the briefcase mysteriously reappears in the Vatican Secret Archives, Father Michael Dominic and his team are up against two powerful and enigmatic organizations.

Father Michael Dominic is called to France for an unusual assignment. A 14th-century bishop was found in a crypt buried under the burnt remnants of Notre-Dame—but he’s wearing the ring of a cardinal, and two parchment scrolls had been hidden in his garment sleeve. Who was this 700-year-old custodian of carefully guarded secrets?

Inside the jar are several scrolls written by the Essenes 2,000 years earlier, before the Great Jewish Revolt, including one legendary scroll engraved on silver that speaks of what may be the great Lost Treasures of Solomon buried around Jerusalem—consistent with the predictions of the fabled Copper Scroll discovered in 1947 near the Dead Sea.

Some languages shouldn’t be spoken. Mysterious carvings found in Antarctica suggest humans lived there in Neolithic times. Archaeologist Darwin Lacroix uncovers an impossible truth: identical symbols appear in central France and Tibet. A sealed Vatican document suggests the inscriptions belong to a primordial language—possibly the tongue from which all human thought descends. Valentín Reiter, leader of a Heilige Stürm, a Nazi fringe group that escaped justice, believes the markings are the lost language of the Hyperboreans, mythical forebears of the Aryan race. He sees them as a way ...