The Road to Gandolfo

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<blockquote> <b>In this wickedly funny novel, Robert Ludlum combines the explosive pacing of <i>The Bourne Identity</i> and <i>The Bourne Supremacy</i> with a bitingly witty send-up of everything from government bureaucrats and pandering military men to the mob, the law, and organized religion.</b> </blockquote>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.<p>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.</p><p>Originally published under the pseudonym Michael Shepard.</p><p>“Don’t ever begin a [Robert] Ludlum novel if you have to go to work the next day.”—<i>Chicago Sun-Times</i></p><p>“Ludlum stuffs more surprises into his novels than any other six-pack of thriller writers combined.”—<i>The New York Times</i></p>