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one of the best books I've read !I thought this book was going to be disappointing boy was I wrong ! It was excellent! Characters and plot expertly and intricately crafted.
This is the first book I've read by this author and can't wait to inhale his others! The past year I have been reading books by many authors new to me, and Francis Joseph Smith is going to the top of my favorite writers! Wow! Outstanding adventure!This treasure hunt mostly enjoyable from its characterizations of its main characters Jim,Dan and Nora.
Our authors theme throughout this epic romp around the world, was that evil shall not prevail as long as it is opposed by good people fighting greed and injustice to insure a better world.
Lest we not forget the past, Francis Joseph Smith has brought to life or we are doomed to repeat it! It's too bad this story, which itself is very good, was ruined by the hundreds of misspelled words, indiscriminate verb tense changes, and punctuation errors, all of which interrupted the flow of the story and made the reader focus on the errors instead of the flow of the story.
It is obvious that the story was dictated onto a computer, and all the proofreading was left up to spell check, which is clearly unable to distinguish among peek, peak, and pique, for example, all of which came out as peak.
And Louis XIV is never Louis XIIII, proverbial is never preverbal, personal is not personnel, The publisher clearly needs to hire a human proofreader, Such a mess reflects badly on both the author and the publisher, I read several books a month and will not read another written by this author or published by this publisher, During the closing days of WWII, senior Nazi party and Vatican officials committed the most brazen robbery of all time, In this fast paced 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, about the role he played in a robbery involving top Nazi and Vatican officials.
A robbery that for overyears, The Vatican has killed to keep its secret buried, Now a deadly game of cat and mouse quickly ensues across the globe involving The Vatican, MIand Interpol, all hot on the trail of Jim, Dan, and Jim's fiancé, Nora Robinson, as they search to discover The Vatican's Last Secret.
With this historical thriller, Francis Joseph Smith pulls the reader into the middle of a dramatic plot that melds the Nazis with key figures within the Vatican during the waning days of the Second World War.
With the end of the War all but done, a group of key Nazis load up as much of their riches as possible, Travelling off the Allies radar, a long procession of train cars seek to make it to safety, with the riches out of the hands of the victors.


When the Allies catch up to the cache, some of it is missing and the presumptive claim is that the Vatican is holding onto it, something the Holy See denies, but never substantiates.
Moving to the present day, an elderly former Nazi tells his son of another hidden cache that sits in rural Germany and should be collected before others note its whereabouts.
Soon thereafter, two men begin the trek to find it, while higher ups in the Vatican also seek to get their hands on the riches, while remaining coy about their interest.
In a story that flashes back to wartime Europe, the narrative shows that someone within the Vatican wants to silence any chance of a smear campaign, while also amassing additional riches for its own coffers.
Blood shed at the hand of protecting the Holy See may be fully justified by some, but the secrets being protected could never be publicly understood or accepted.
The race is on to find this last collection of riches and to uncover the Vaticans darkest secret tied to the Second World War.
An interesting piece with a strong premise, but whose momentum dwindled at times, Those who like thrillers and can handle highly tangential storylines, this book may be for you, The cover and premise of the book caught me from the outset, though I will admit that the deeper I got into the book, the less enthralled I became.
There are many subplots to keep the narrative moving forward, though they get muddled and diluted with all the action, In a story that is so long, one must hope the author can keep building the momentum, rather than have it inch along that the aforementioned train cars full of riches.
The variety of characters add some flavour to the story, though there was an obvious need for a tighter connection between reader and characters on the page, which may have helped propel the story forward.
The historical premise was quite interesting, particularly the race to uncover or cover up the truth about the riches and the Vaticans connection, but things just lasted too long.
Smith does well to splice in current and flashback chapters, which substantiate the narrative foundation, but I became lost after a time and simply sought a resolution.
What could have been a stellar thriller that left readers wondering just how much Vatican officials would deny turned a little lugubrious and needed a kick in the literary posterior.
Then again, maybe its just me but other reviews will shed light on it, Kudos, Mr. Smith, for a valiant effort, I wonder if the story could/should have been split into a duology or trilogy or editors done better work tightening it up, Premise was there and I could surely see potential, Love/hate the review An ever growing collection of others appears at: Book for All Seasons, a different sort of Book Challenge: best selling author Francis Joseph Smith has traveled to most of the world during his tenure in the Armed Forces Navy Air Force and as an Analyst for an unnamed Government Agency, providing him with numerous fictional plot lines and settings for future use.
His experiences provide readers with well researched, fast paced action, Smith's novels are the result of years of preparation to become a fiction writer in the genre of Clancy, Griffin, Higgins, and Cussler, Smith lives with his family in a small town outside Philadelphia, .