num_pages: 338
description:  In this wickedly funny novel Robert Ludlum combines the explosive pacing of The Bourne Identity and The Bourne Supremacy with a bitingly witty send-up of everything from government bureaucrats and pandering military men to the mob the law and organized religion.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 Chinas Forbidden City. Under house arrest in Peking with a case against him pending in Washington this looks like the end of Macs illustrious career. But he has a plan of his own: kidnap the Pope.Whats the ransom? Just one American dollarfor every Catholic in the world. Add to the mix a slew of shady investors Macs 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.Originally published under the pseudonym Michael Shepard.Dont ever begin a [Robert] Ludlum novel if you have to go to work the next day.Chicago Sun-TimesLudlum stuffs more surprises into his novels than any other six-pack of thriller writers combined.The New York Times
language: English
title: The Road to Gandolfo
publisher: Bantam