Private Monaco

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Life hadn’t been this easy for a long time.

Justine and I had lingered over breakfast at the Hôtel de Paris in Monte Carlo. Our suite there was an extravagance for this leg of our European tour. It was opulent, bordering on decadent, but exactly the luxurious retreat we needed.

I had kept my promise to bring her back to Europe for a vacation. In the past two weeks, I hadn’t regretted for a moment the commitment I’d made earlier in the year, when we’d been investigating the murder of Father Ignacio Brambilla, the priest who was shot dead at the launch of Private Rome. We’d spent days battling the forces of evil on the streets of the Eternal City, exposing a conspiracy that extended from a deadly criminal gang known as the Dark Fates as far as the ancient corridors of power in the Vatican itself. We’d discovered the Dark Fates were the street, verging on paramilitary, arm of a secret society known as Propaganda Tre, which had infiltrated almost every part of Italian society. We’d uncovered a conspiracy to seize power in the Vatican, and the conspirators, including Milan Verde, leader of the Dark Fates, had been imprisoned.

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